Forestry workers supply fussy koalas

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:53

Written by Editor

Workers at  the Huelva branch of Ence, one of Europe's biggest forestry management company, spend most of their time providing the koala bears at the Zoo Aquarium in Madrid with 34 of the 45 varieties of eucalyptus needed in the daily diet. And they cannot be just any branches. A spokesman said they can only eat the tenderest leaves, which are despatched from Huelva twice a week in refrigerated lorries. The koalas eat two different species for their morning meal then four different species for tea. Ence has been supplying the Madrid koalas since 2001, when the vet at San Diego Zoo in California who oversees the care of all the koalas living outside Australia certified that the Huelva eucalyptus species met the koalas' stringent feeding requirements.