bushfires, loss of habitat and human liberty are all threatening australia s well known species. such is the koala. but scientists hope to save them by mapping out and sharing their genetic make up. she name sequence he gives into the immune system, the diet and population diversity, a that has already shown success with tasmanian devil, an endangered marsupial. earlier i asked doctor carolyn hogg from the school of life and environmental sciences at the university of sydney why this genomics mapping is so important. one of the key things we have come to realise with any type of genetic diversity is the more diversity a species has, the greater potential they have to adapt to future changes. so a lot of people understand and know about the biodiversity crisis that the planet now finds itself in, and there are three main pillars to biodiversity. one is having lots of differences and lots of diversity diversity in ecosystems, lots of different