Sentences with phrase «koala population on»

On Australia's south coast west of Melbourne, the koala population on Cape Otway — where the species was reintroduced in 1981 — outstripped the food supply (a favored koala delicacy, manna gum trees) in recent years, with hundreds of animals exhibiting signs of starvation.

In a study published earlier this year, biologists studying the calls and behavior of a wild koala population on an island off the Queensland coast found an interesting result, reported by the BBC:

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You can see koalas at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast, but the city council has won a planning battle to preserve their wild population too.

As of 2013, there are over 800 koalas estimated to be present on the island; this population represents the northern limit of their geographic range.

Then on to pristine Flinders Chase, where you may search for koala, echidna and platypus and see the Dama wallaby and Western Grey kangaroo grazing in their natural habitat along with Cape Barren geese, the occasional goanna and abundant bird populations.

St Bees Island has also been the research point for Central Queensland University and University of Queensland who have been investigating the population of wild koalas on the island.

Staff at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in a nearby suburb filled me in on conservation issues affecting this eucalyptus - munching marsupial, including a strain of chlamydia, possibly originating in livestock, that has spread in some areas south of here, prompting scientists to propose this week that culling may be necessary in infected populations.

In the last 10 years, koala populations have dropped by about 80 percent, according to a report by the BBC, and in 2012, the Australian government placed them on an endangered animal list.

«I started thinking about my own people, the Ngemba people, and I said, well they can collect information about the koala on where he is, what his habitat is, population demographics.