An infamous koala nicknamed " Claude " has conduct a broad - daytime heist on the Eastern Forest Nursery in South Gundurimba , New South Wales , Australia . Last year , workers at the nursery – which grows eucalyptus tree for a koala habitat – noticed that a turn of their works appeared to have been chewed on .
" One forenoon we came to oeuvre and there was an sphere of eucalyptus that had freshly been munched by something . We noticed there was a koala clinging onto a pole next to the tables where the seedling had been use up , " Eastern Forest Nursery manager Hymphrey Herington explained toWorld Wildlife Fund ( WWF ) Australiafollowing the later rip-off . " Yeah , I would never have believed it was a native bear until I ’ve consider him actually sitting there on the pole . "
Herington captured range of the koala , which caught the attending of the world ’s media .
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This year , the eucalyptus tree plant have been surrounded by extra security – but Claude returned even so .
" We ’ve fenced three side , and we had a fence with a wobbly nicety cloth top , the theory being that if he tried to climb up he would fall back outside the fencing , " Herington toldABC News .
" Then one day the faculty in reality construe him . He climb up the tad cloth and was come down onto the pole and getting into the baby’s room . That was three o’clock in the afternoon . That was an interesting visit , coming in for an early feed . "
Camerasinstalled by the WWFshowed that Claude was not eating the plants alone .
" Around the nursery you could probably numerate up to 12 or more Phascolarctos cinereus in the trees , " Herington told ABC News , adding " some of those icon show a female person with a joey on her back . "
" With koala Claude and his friends going to the nursery to eat seedlings , it usher how they ’re desperate for food for thought trees , " Koalas forever and a day project Officer Maria Borgestold WWF , " and this area that we are right now , the Northern Rivers , peculiarly around Lismore , is intemperately clear , and it ’s really missing good quality home ground for them .
" That shows how we need to establish more trees and how we need to stop , desperately , tree - clarification , especially all around the Northern Rivers , that it ’s a stronghold for koala populations in New South Wales . "
