Clinging to a fluffy toy twice her size, orphaned koala joey Ajooni makes a snuffling noise as she drinks milk from a tiny syringe. Weighing about the same as a mango, she was found by the side of a Sydney road where her mother was hit by a car and died. Expanding cities, land clearance and the spread of chlamydia are devastating the populations of one of Australia's most iconic animals. "I think the time to act was already, you know, yesterday, last year, last decade -- I'm scared it's too late," says wildlife carer Emma Meadows. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES