This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s two in the morning and a koala is caught in barbed wire on a fence, like a prisoner trying to escape. A phone rings ...

Koalas face a number of threats to their habitat - logging, as well as bushfires Dozens of koalas have been found dead or injured at a timber plantation in the Australian state of Victoria ...

Koalas are usually regarded as solitary animals, but new footage is revealing a more gregarious side. Darcy Watchorn at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, filmed male koalas grooming each ...

I'm sitting on a damp log, clutching a thermos of lukewarm tea and watching a koala snooze on a branch above me. Suddenly, it lifts its head. I sit up straight, pen poised to record what happens.