Wild koalas to be put on the pill in bid to save habitat

FEMALE koalas Down Under are being put on the pill because the population is eating itself out of house and home.

Parks Victoria in Australia is planning to inject a small tube containing the same hormones as the contraceptive pill under the skin of around 3,000 wild female koalas in the Mount Eccles National Park, 186 miles southwest of Melbourne.

Parks Victoria's research manager Sally Troy said the koala population had to be brought under control because their staple food, the manna gum in the Mount Eccles National Park, was close to depletion.