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Koala apocalypse? It ain’t science

28 April 2022

12:00 PM

28 April 2022

12:00 PM

Koalas eat soft young shoots. They cannot survive on a diet of healthy mature eucalypt leaves. When Aboriginal people maintained healthy forests by gentle burning, solitary koalas lived in large home ranges of around a hundred hectares with thousands of trees. They used their big noses and strong limbs to seek out fresh growth every night.

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