Lending A Helping Hand
Despite the hard work involved in koala trapping, this has been a dream vacation for Vicich and Trapnell. Along with seven other volunteers from Australia, Quebec, Singapore, Zimbabwe and the United States, they’re spending two weeks on St. Bees Island helping scientists track local koalas. The purpose of the fieldwork: to discover why koalas here live in perfect balance with their habitat (as opposed to most other places, where they tend to devour it)....