Peter Bannan
ONE of Australia’s sleepiest natives will be documented over the next week as part of a NSW initiative to better understand koala populations.
From November 7 to November 17, ‘citizen scientists’ will be donning their walking shoes and grabbing the binoculars to join in the Great Koala Count, an initiative run by the National Parks Association of NSW in partnership with the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative to build a better picture of koala populations in Australia.
It will be the first time a survey of this kind will be done on such a large scale, and with enough support from the public it is likely it will continue annually.
For more on this story see Friday’s Guardian (November 8).
