Koalas Going on the Pill (yes, THAT pill)

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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Female koalas are being given contraception in the Australian state of Victoria because the population is eating itself out of house and home.

Parks Victoria 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, 300 km (186 miles) southwest of Melbourne.

Sally Troy, Parks Victoria's research manager, said on Wednesday that 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.

"The forest is continuing to decline as the animals just keep eating and breeding," Troy told Reuters.

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