It's a cold, drizzly night in a forest west of Melbourne. 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.

Everyone thought koalas were solitary creatures. But a new paper reveals there is more to the social lives of koalas than previously thought.

Thousands of Koalas are killed each year by cars and dogs, the nonprofit says, adding that residents can help protect the animals by keeping dogs away from them, driving carefully at night ...

Sometimes these days one knows that one is in the right place at the right time with the right people who are supporting animals facing extinction. This realisation happened to many of us last ...

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 ...

The behaviour – witnessed in southern Victoria’s Cape Otway – shows social dynamics between koalas may change when they are forced to live in close quarters. It’s a cold, drizzly night in a forest ...