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Birth control for koalas? Hormone implant set to control booming numbers in parts of Adelaide

A koala fertility program is being implemented in parts of South Australia in a bid to control booming numbers, despite the marsupial now being listed … [follow link to original story…]

Koalas now ‘functionally extinct’ says Australian Koala Foundation

Bill Shorten holding Brandi the six year-old koala while attending Australia Zoo in Beerwah north of Brisbane. Picture: Liam KidstonSource:News Corp … [follow link to original story…]

Koala contraceptive introduced in Adelaide Hills to control booming population and preserve …

The fertility control program, which started this week, involves Environment Department staff capturing a koala and administering a hormone implant … [follow link to original story…]

Campbelltown Council continues to push for koala protection funding

Campbelltown Council continues to push for koala protection funding … “It is appalling to go on and on about the importance of koalas and then do … [follow link to original story…]

Koala survey provides vital data to help save koalas

More than 90% of people in the Northern Rivers are happy to live among koalas and want to see them protected, a major community survey has found. [follow link to original story…]

On Australia’s major environmental crises

Many visits to Australia provided major research for an important book entitled, Killing Koalas and Poisoning the Prairies, co-authored with Professor … [follow link to original story…]

Land clearing is stressing koalas: report

Land clearing and bushfires are the biggest causes of stress for wild koalas, according to NSW research of stress hormones in faecal samples. [follow link to original story…]

Residents ready to fight for koala habitat

Clarence Valley councillor Greg Clancy said the the proposal would result in the removal of a number of trees and put at risk the koala population in … [follow link to original story…]

Mid North Coast Joint Organisation of council to work on a three-year Hastings-Macleay Koala …

Mayor of Kempsey Shire Council and chairperson of the Mid North Coast Joint Organisation, Liz Campbell said koalas have undergone a 26 per cent … [follow link to original story…]

Koala population surveyed on EP

Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula are conducting a series of koala distribution surveys to determine koala numbers and the level of threat they pose … [follow link to original story…]