More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has estimated, in what it called a deeply disturbing number for a ...

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SYDNEY: Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as "endangered" on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and ...

THIS map paints a terrifying picture for Australia. It’s a blight on our landscape we will never be able to recover from. But koala numbers in Australia have declined at an even faster rate, and the ...

More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has estimated, in what it called a deeply disturbing number for a ...

ANIMAL rights advocates believe koala populations in Queensland are “functionally extinct” and have a dire warning for Australia’s biodiversity. Numbers of the iconic animal have been depleted in ...

Heart-wrenching to know that Kangaroo island in Australia has lost over 50 per cent of its koala population! Over 6 million hectares of land in Australia have been destroyed in the recent bushfires.

The word "koala" is thought to originate from one of the Australian Aboriginal languages, Dharug, which roughly translates to ‘no drink’ or ‘no water’. And this might explain why. In the Australian ...

The Australian government on Friday declared the koala an endangered species, as drought, bush fires, disease and habitat loss have drastically reduced the numbers of an animal that is an emblem of ...

MELBOURNE, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Specialised drones are being tested in a programme to boost koala numbers on Australia's east coast, dropping seeds of gum trees as part of a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) ...

DAVID GRAY/AFP/AFP Australia halted logging in a large stretch of woodland on the country's eastern coast Sunday to create a retreat for koalas and save the local population from extinction. The New ...

Australia is considering listing koalas on the country's east coast as endangered, Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley said on Friday in an emailed statement. Australia already classifies east ...