ABC Online reports that more than 200 koalas will be relocated from French Island to Yarra State Park near Gladysdale today.
Iam Temby from the [Victorian] Department of Environment says the move is part of an annual project to protect koala feeding habitats.
“Part of the reason is that French Island doesn’t have [the] disease chlamydia and chlamydia inhibits breeding in populations, so it slows the rate of population increase,” he said.
“The koalas breed prolifically on French Island and they need to be removed regularly each year otherwise they’re going to eat all the trees that sustain them.”
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