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A koala yawns as he sits on a branch at Koala Park in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, July 27, 2004. Animal activists urged the government Wednesday, July 28, 2004 to make koala protection an election issue, as they presented evidence that urban sprawl is driving the much-loved marsupial toward extinction. The Australian Koala Foundation delivered a dossier of evidence to government scientists to support its prediction that koalas will disappear from the populous eastern seaboard within 15 years if the eucalyptus trees whose leaves they eat continue to be cleared to make way for new homes and farmland (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Mark Baker)