PBS News Weekend

As koalas face extinction, an Australian zoo is using proven breeding strategies to protect the country's iconic animals. The koala is an iconic Australian animal, but its numbers have been rapidly declining in recent decades. Earlier this year the Australian Koala Foundation declared the marsupials "functionally extinct." But one zoo on the Gold Coast in the state of Queensland is using proven breeding strategies to protect the animals, and starting a live genome bank to tackle some of the biggest threats to koalas. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Kirsty Johansen reports.