Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

Gold Coast woman Zoe Scharenguivel was driving with her two kids in the car when she spotted the endangered marsupial on a ...

Aitken, 42, runs a volunteer organization devoted to rescuing wild koalas from a surprisingly wide array of hazards. Before the dispatcher has even given her the location, she has thrown her ...

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...

Australian scientists have begun vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia in an ambitious field trial in New South Wales. The aim is to test a method for protecting the beloved marsupials against ...

The research team has found that a koala population in Australia has evolved a distinctive genomic immunity to a retrovirus.

Native forest is cleared using feller bunchers at a logging camp in the proposed boundaries of The Great Koala National Park at Wild Cattle Creek State Forest. This area includes old growth native ...

Eight koalas have been successfully returned to the wild after critical treatment for chlamydia. The disease, known as a "silent killer," can cause blindness, infertility, and even death if left ...