CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Australia has recently designated which species as ‘Endangered’? Notes: Australia has recently designated the koala an endangered species, which was classified as vulnerable only 10 years ago.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pig-footed Bandicoots, Crescent Nailtail Wallabies and Desert Rat-kangaroos in central Australia. Those animals have gone. Species that had thrived on the Australian landscape for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years have tragically disappeared in just a few decades.

Detailed explanation-3: -Australia has listed the koala as an endangered species across most of its east coast, after a dramatic decline in numbers. The once-thriving marsupial has been ravaged by land clearing, bushfires, drought, disease and other threats.