The hospital, run by Adelaide Koala Rescue, is caring for over 100 koalas affected by the fires Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

An Australian hospital has been touched by all the generous support they’ve received to help koalas that have been affected by the bushfires in South Wales, Australia. Last month, the Port Macquarie ...

Staff at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital have been caring for dozens of koalas injured in the state’s devastating bushfires, with an estimated 350 of the marsupials killed as a result. Hundreds of ...

Ten-month-old Emerson fixed his big brown eyes on me and yawned. Still groggy from a nap, the koala rubbed his face, then stuck out an expectant paw. The nurse escorting me through his enclosure ...

In a spot of good news, several koalas who were injured in bushfires in Australia in 2019 have been re-released into the wild. The marsupials were being treated at the world’s only all-koala hospital, ...

SYDNEY -- As wildfires rage across parts of Australia, people are stepping up to help some of the smallest victims of the flames: the koalas. A dramatic rescue video shows a woman pull a badly burned ...

Dozens of injured koalas arrive at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park's makeshift animal hospital each day in cat carriers, washing baskets or clinging to wildlife carers. Injured in bushfires that ...

A story that began with a selfless act and a singular story of survival from the devastating brushfires raging in Australia has ended on a sad note. A woman's dash into the flames to rescue a koala ...

PORT MACQUARIE, Australia — A koala has died just days after his dramatic rescue from an Australian wildfire was caught on camera, a New South Wales animal hospital announced Tuesday. According to CNN ...

(NEW YORK) — Ellenborough Lewis, the koala whose dramatic rescue from Australian bush fires was a symbol of hope for the struggling koala population, has had to be put down because of the severity of ...