Resident wild koalas show resilience to large-scale translocation of bushfire-rescued koalas.

ABSTRACT: Wildlife translocation is increasingly utilized as a conservation management action, to mitigate the immediate negative effects of habitat loss and fragmentation (e.g. from land clearing or bushfires). Previous research has shown that stress responses can help or hinder survival in translocated wildlife and determine the efficacy of translocation as a conservation action. Yet these translocated animals are only one side of the equation, with translocation also potentially impacting the animals in the recipient population. We measured physiological markers of stress (faecal cortisol metabolite concentrations and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratios) and assessed health condition in a wild koala population one year after a major translocation of bushfire-rescued koalas on Kangaroo Island. We expecte

SUBMITTER: Beaman JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9885738 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature