Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Koala female with her baby at the Perth Zoo in Australia. When you think of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), chances are that ...

The Australian Koala Foundation reports that koalas are in "rapid decline" in the country as they face habitat destruction, drought and more threats to survival Australia's koala population is ...

(CNN) — Following the devastating bushfires in Australia, there is now a significant and immediate threat of extinction to the koala population, according to a new report. A minimum of 5,000 koalas ...

Scientists in Australia are vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia in an attempt to stop the sexually transmitted disease from wiping out the population. A team of scientists aims to catch and ...

This week, experts announced that an estimated one billion animals in Australia have died from the wildfires, including thousands of koalas. As the koala population in Australia continues to be ...

Today the Australian Koala Foundation announced they believe “there are no more than 80,000 koalas in Australia”, making the species “functionally extinct”. While this number is dramatically lower ...