Word: burnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koala" in the Nov. 16 issue went straight to my heart-so much so that I am enclosing my check for $50. If you want to use it to start an American Society for the Preservation of the Koala or if you want to send it to Mr. Noel Burnet it is all the same to me. But in all seriousness I want to do something to help toward the preservation of this adorable animal, so perfectly described by your writer as ''a cuddly, button-nosed little creature...
Nine years ago, when koalas had almost vanished from the Australian bush, a penniless 22-year-old Brisbane naturalist named Noel Burnet dedicated his life to saving the species from extinction. He started out with four koalas in his boardinghouse back yard, soon interested a philanthropist who rented him a 50-acre patch near Sydney for a shilling a year. He named it Koala Park, planted eucalyptus trees, built a koala hospital, developed a thriving colony which tourists came from far & wide to see. Naturalist Burnet did not grow rich on his tourist trade, had a perpetual struggle to keep...
...last week arrived an issue of the Sydney Sunday Sun and Guardian with half a page devoted to pictures of the koala and a plaintive screed by Noel Burnet. "Few American visitors," wrote he, "would fail to give everything they possess to take back to the States a real live 'Teddy bear,' but, alas, that cannot...
...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...
Sounding curiously like a Republican critic of WPA, Mr. Burnet continued: "I have begged on several occasions for a little relief labor for small works to im prove the conditions for Bears. . . . But gangs of men chipping up grass and weeds along roads all over the district is apparently far more important...