Roger Martin is a zoologist who lives in Queensland’s far north Atherton Tablelands, and has spent much of his career studying the marsupial.
He feels many are unaware of the plight of Australia’s endangered koalas, with a line-up of wind farms proposed in the state’s most precious remnant forests.
Not only do wind farms require land clearing, Martin fears the noise from turbine blades could drown out koala mating calls, or bellows, making it near-impossible for the marsupials to locate one another.
Koalas possess an enlarged middle ear, adapted to detect low-frequency sounds, allowing them to hear each other across the bush—mating calls can be audible from several kilometres away....
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