Experience unforgettable wildlife encounters at Billabong Sanctuary. From koala cuddles to meerkats leaping, it's education & adventure.

By the 1930s, the koala-fur trade had been halted, but already, koalas were running up against another human desire: land.

The koala is clinging to a chain-link fence, its fur snagged in horizontal strands of barbed wire. Towering eucalyptus trees, as pale as ghosts, rise on the far side of the fence. “He was ...

But the koala simply yawns and resumes the blob position ... More than once, I’ve seen male koalas scratched and bloodied — ...

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