Koalas are common wildlife fatalities in bushfires. The tree-dwelling mammals usually cope by climbing to the top of trees and curling into a ball. "If the fire goes through quickly and just ...
"After the fire it looked very much like they were wiped out from the area," Ms Schwartz said. "It wasn't until 2018 that a Glenorie local spotted a koala outside their house and took a photo of it.
This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s two in the morning and a koala is caught in barbed wire on a fence, like a prisoner trying to escape. A phone rings ...
(CNN)-- The raging wildfires that killed hundreds of Australians earlier this year could not kill Sam the Koala. But an illness endemic in the country's koala population did. Sam, the 4-year-old ...
What makes your system so good at locating koalas? When you or I go out in the bush and look for koalas we see about 20% of them. An expert, looking from the ground, will find about 70%.
Koalas are often in the middle of campaigns against development involving land clearing.But finding out exactly how much habitat for endangered koala populations will be lost — whether it's for a ...