koalas
Australia to Spend a Record $35 Million to Protect Koalas
Australia will spend a record $50 million Australian ($35 million US) over the next four years to boost long-term protection and recovery of its koala population, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office said in a statement on Saturday. “Koalas are one of Australia’s most loved and best recognised icons, both here at home and across the […]
Alleged ‘Koala Massacre’ Prompts Hundreds of Animal Cruelty Charges
Australian authorities on Wednesday charged a landowner and two companies with more than 250 counts of animal cruelty over the deaths of dozens of koalas during a clearance operation last year. According to a statement from Victoria state’s Conservation Regulator, 21 koalas were found dead and dozens more injured at a timber plantation in Cape […]
Measures to Protect Koalas Ahead of Bushfires
Australia is getting ready for this year’s bushfire season. Devastating bushfires in 2019 and 2020 are estimated to have killed close to 3 billion wild animals in the country. Authorities are coming up with measures to protect koalas, which are particularly vulnerable.
Farmer invents drinking station for thirsty koalas
Thirty kilometers (18.6 miles) south of the outback New South Wales town center of Gunnedah, semi-retired farmer Robert Frend is hoping to save an Australian icon, the koala, from dying of thirst. The marsupials are known to get their water from chewing on eucalyptus leaves. But in 2009, 25 per cent of the koala population […]