Mapping the Monaro koala

By Ian Warden
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:36pm, first published August 14 2013 - 3:00am

We tend to think of ours as a rather koala-less region (the animals kept away perhaps by the spread of civilisation and/or an absence of what koalas dine on). But, in fact, as we beetle to and fro across the Monaro on our way to the snow or to the seaside we are passing through a koala-blessed (albeit rather thinly) bailiwick. There are some in bush-upholstered parts of the Tinderry Ranges that loom up so dramatically behind Michelago, as you drive from Canberra to Cooma.

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