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A comment on Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Fires Destroy 80% of Their Habitat. Parent comment

Re:Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Fires Destr... by klyrs on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:45PM (#21621971)
> Functional extinction is when a population becomes so limited that they no longer play a significant role in their ecosystem and the population becomes no longer viable. While some individuals could produce, the limited number of koalas makes the long-term viability of the species unlikely and highly susceptible to disease.
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Re:Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Fires Destr... by Supermancho on Sunday November 24, 2019 @01:50PM (#21622400)
Restating the text is unhelpful and is an uncharacteristically thoughtless HN post. My lack of context was a missing distinction of the population boundaries. The population, when talking about extinction, is ubiquitously within the entirety of the species' home...not just some random patch. The headline is clickbait and the article is misleading, at best.
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