The overpopulation of koalas in Australia is causing many of them to starve to death. Western Victoria wildlife officers are hoping a birth control program will be the key to saving Cape Otway's ...

Wildfires continue to rage in southeastern Australia ... species -- the koala. Dozens of bushfires have raged across several states since early November. The blazes have burned through hundreds ...

In Australia, Canines for Wildlife is training dogs like Max the English Springer Spaniel to help save endangered koalas.

SYDNEY: Tiger burns in Australia's bushfires? It's a 2012 photo from from Indonesia. Young girl rescues koala? Actually an artist's impression. Social media is packed with powerful images of ...

That's why those koalas are now listed as endangered under federal environmental law. In South Australia and Victoria the story is a bit different. In some areas there are a lot of koalas and the ...

New research from the University of Sydney highlights the unique existential dilemma faced by Sydney's koala population.

Katrina Boyle filmed her son-in-law, Will Thornton, as he stepped in to help a marsupial crossing the Gold Coast Highway in Burleigh Heads, Queensland. Almost 20,000 people visited Sydney's ...

The San Diego Zoo reports it's overjoyed to announce the arrival of a new female koala joey and celebrate an extraordinary 100 years of friendship with Taronga Conservation Society Australia.

With their fluffy round ears and large, black noses, six koalas arrived in Japan on Oct. 25, 1984, as gifts from Australia. Two each were sent to zoos in Tokyo, Nagoya and Kagoshima as goodwill ...

"They are open-minded and spontaneous," she said. There are about 700 or more species of eucalyptus in Australia, and koalas feed on dozens of varieties. Eucalyptus trees are grown at the zoo and ...