newshour weekend special correspondent kirsty johansen has the story. >> reporter: australia is home some of the most diver natural landscapes. on the golcoast, a city in the state of queensland, unspoiled coastline meets native bushland, making it prime location for urban development. but as consequence, deforestation is increasing, destroying or leavin fragments the habitats of one of animal: the koala. well-loved >> they are in imminent danger of becoming extinct, becoming endangered. the population is doing this, it'not doing this, it's not doing this, the population is doing this and every day that goes by means there's one less koala. >> reporter: al mucci, from the dreamworld wildlife foundatinp, a norofit that supports conservation, research and education in the wild, has been working with koalas for more than three decades. he says over the past ten years he's seen the koala population 10,000 to less th00.indle from it's that statistic that drove tcci to start a world-fi pilot program, the living koala genome bank project, that aims to address the increasing threat l local k