There were instances that the exotic animals seized in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh smuggled from Myanmar and ferried through Mizoram to these states.
Environment groups have campaigned for koalas to be listed as endangered since the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires when 60,000 of the iconic creatures were killed or affected.
Koalas are particularly vulnerable to habitat destruction as they subsist wholly on the leaves of the eucalyptus tree.
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