Australia recently survived a horrifying season of wildfires — the worst one ever, according to the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. But at one Aussie zoo, they’re looking to the future with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many travellers to Australia may be surprised to learn that cuddling koalas is now prohibited in most states. Lukas Coch/AAP/dpa ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --A bus driver in Brisbane, Australia, spotted a koala darting through traffic on a busy road and brought the animal aboard the vehicle to wait for rescuers. Koala Rescue Brisbane South ...

Some ideas start off small and, in this case, at a young age. A 6-year-old Massachusetts boy concerned about koalas impacted by the Australian fires is using his heart and his hands to help. Owen ...

Koalas are being shot dead by snipers from helicopters as Australian authorities look to cull the iconic mammals after a wildfire devastated their habitat. Animal activists have expressed their fury ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A regulator has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia infections, which are causing infertility and death in the iconic native species that is ...

Koalas were officially declared endangered Friday in eastern Australia. This comes as the marsupials continue to fall prey to chlamydia and lose their habitats to land clearing and climate change.

What’s morally preferable: leaving hundreds of koalas to die in a destroyed habitat or shooting them out of a plane? The question spooking the international community after the government of Victoria, ...