This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Before Europeans settled Australia more than two centuries ago, about ten million koalas lived in a 1,500-mile-long ...

Normally, koalas get nearly all their water from their food, and researchers have linked this new behavior to climate change. Australia is getting hotter and drier, the eucalyptus leaves are less ...

Red kangaroos thrive in arid grasslands like these in Sturt National Park ... “When tourists come to Australia, they want to hug a kangaroo, hold a koala bear, meet an Aboriginal person.

Australia faces severe criticism after a controversial cull in Victoria's Budj Bim National Park, where nearly 700 koalas ...

Up to 750 koalas have been fatally shot by helicopter snipers in the Australian state of Victoria over the past month, Australia's Liberal ... 750 koalas in Budj Bim National Park, in what is ...