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Episode: Residents of Australian town fight to stop 1,800 new homes in koala habitat
Description: A new housing proposal in Australia could threaten precious koala habitat according to hundreds of local residents who have banded together to oppose the plan. Spanning hundreds of hectares in the city of Ipswich, southwest of Brisbane, the Woogaroo Forest is where an estimated 200 koalas live.
βYou get all sorts of things, kookaburras wake you up, they're the first things to call out in the morning. And from time to time, we see the odd koala,β says local Keith McCosh. But some of this precious habitat could disappear because of a new development proposal.
Stockland, the developer behind the project, inte...