Expanding cities, land clearance and the spread of chlamydia in particular are devastating the populations of one of Australia's most iconic animals. But scientists are hopeful:"The chlamydia vaccine research will probably be quite pivotal for populations that we're trying to protect from the disease of infertility."
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00:00It's hard, it's hard at times, you know, seeing what we see, you know, day in, day
00:28after day, night after night, being called at all hours of the morning, as I said, those
00:3340 koalas that have been hit on Appen Road in the last two years, I've pretty much pulled
00:37every single one of those bodies off the road or taken them to the vet to be, you know,
00:41to die.
00:42It's huge, it's a massive toll.
01:12A large number of the populations have chlamydia within them.
01:27There's one really significant population in southwest Sydney, which is chlamydia free,
01:32and that's the population that everybody's very jealously guarding to try and ensure
01:36that they remain a fertile population.
01:49The
02:18chlamydia vaccine research will probably be quite pivotal for populations that we're
02:24trying to protect from the disease of infertility, if you like.
02:28I think while it seems doom and gloom at the moment, we can afford to be a little bit positive
02:32and say we still have the potential to make this right.