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 ...

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 ...

A stretch of highway in Australia is a “roadkill hotspot” for koalas with nearly 150 of the endangered marsupials killed in just one year, scientists have warned in a new study. Koalas are ...