Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should think the Australian Government would be ashamed of itself to permit these animals to die out and to allow their only benefactor, Mr. Burnet, virtually to starve due to his lone uphill fight to save them. Can't California do what Australia is apparently unwilling to do? Hasn't California many eucalyptus trees originally brought from Australia, and among the California eucalypti can't some of the twelve varieties the Koala feeds upon be found? California is a greathearted, energetic State. Will Californians interest themselves in the Koala...
...present, the magazine has 2,200 subscribers but the number of readers is much greater as the copies are usually forwarded to several other blind persons. Some are known to be regularly sent as far as Australia. Some are read to groups of the blind who have not learned to read the Braille system, so that the number of those who benefit from each issue is many times the 2,200 circulation. Many blind people without means receive the magazine because of the kindness of someone who has donated the subscription price...
...Australia's aborigines thought that koalas were reincarnations of their dead babies, never dreamed of harming them. A cuddly, button-nosed little creature with furry ears and an affectionate disposition, the koala-along with such other Australian curiosities as wombats, wallaroos, kookaburras and the duck-billed platypus -thrived until white men came. When Chile's supply of chinchilla began to run low, hunters and trappers swarmed out through the Australian bush, slaughtered koalas by tens of thousands, shipped their hides off to the U. S. to be made into cheap fur coats or women's bags, belts...
Though it looks like a live teddy bear, the koala belongs to Australia's primitive family of marsupials. The newborn koala is beetle-sized. It lives in its mother's pouch for eight months, clings to her back for some months thereafter (see cut). A full-grown koala is some 2 ft. long, weighs about 12 lb. It spends its life in the branches of eucalyptus trees, eats only eucalyptus leaves and of these only twelve varieties. A koala fed leaves from any other of Australia's some 400 varieties of eucalyptus tree will die. The koala...
...What," moaned embittered Mr. Burnet, "is a grateful country doing to save the Native Bear with that 'plaintive face' which has so completely 'sold' Australia to the rest of the world? The answer is -NOTHING...