“What we desire to happen”

“Hope is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.” — Jane Goodall

“I am life which wills to live…- Albert Schweitzer.

A silent killer is spreading through Australia’s koala population, posing a threat that wildlife experts say could wipe out the iconic marsupial across large parts of the country. For koalas, uncontrolled chlamydia can cause blindness and painful cysts in a animal’s reproductive tract that may lead to infertility or even death.

According to Australia’s leading scientific body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the country has already warmed by about 1.44 degrees on average since 1910.

The Australian government report said when the marsupials are exposed to unusually stressful environmental conditions, including “hot weather, drought, habitat loss and fragmentation,” chlamydia spreads more quickly through their population.

William Jordan , 76, is the author of books including 1991’s “Divorce Among the Gulls,” a collection of essays about the natural world. He has lived in Culver City CA for 30 years.