Australia to protect koala population with largest yet financial package

A state government in Australia has come up with A$45 million ($34 million) for a conservation package to protect threatened koala populations in the country's east, with plans for new reserves for the species.New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton said Sunday that almost half of the state's "Koala Strategy" funds will go to setting aside 24,000 hectares of land as new, protected reserves for the iconic marsupials."In half a century we don't want children looking at books saying this is what a koala looked like," Berejiklian said at a press confe…READ FULL ARTICLE