We’ve never been so thrilled to look like we’d just tumbled through the wild- covered in meerkat saliva, mud, and koala fur- than after our visit to Billabong Sanctuary Wildlife Park in ...

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 ...