Looking for a Koala?

T he main groups living out of captivity are in eastern Australia, among the wild eucalyptus forests and woodlands that stretch from Cooktown in northern Queensland (about 15 degrees south) to south-western Victoria (38 degrees south). But even here, they are found only in pockets of suitable vegetation.

Koalas have been introduced into Western Australia, where they were not found naturally in the recent past. Small numbers were released on to Phillip and French Islands (Victoria) as long ago as 1870, and these have increased to such an extent that there is now a problem of overcrowding. For this reason, many of the koalas from these areas have been removed to places where there would otherwise be few or none.

One such area is South Australia, where koalas had been hunted to extinction by the 1930s. They had already been taken to Flinders Island (off the South Australian coast) in 1923. Since then, new koala colonies have been set up in eight areas of mainland South Australia.


Where to see koalas?

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ARE NOT UP TO DATE.
They are taken from Simon Hunter's Koala Handbook.
For an updated info on zoos in U.S., see The Zoo Guide by Allen Nyhuis , published in 1994.

Outside Australia

Australia
-- From: Koala Handbook by Simon Hunter --


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