“I specialise in the bitey end,” says the Phillip Island Nature Parks’ ranger as he — as gently as possible — pins a koala to the ground by its shoulders, while a vet takes a blood sample.

A charity will set up a 530-hectare koala sanctuary on Kangaroo Island after the 2019–20 bushfires and subsequent clearing of blue gum plantations impacted the marsupials. The sanctuary will ...

Covering 101 square kilometres, Phillip Island is quite a small island ... only an outdoor lover’s paradise but also a wildlife sanctuary for seals, migratory whales, birdlife, and koalas.

Phillip Island (including Rhyll ... penguin colony and other natural features (such as Churchill Island, Seal Rocks and the Koala Conservation Centre) are the major attractions although the ...