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On Our Way to Australia to defend the cause of koalas

Welcome to our blog about our amazing 7-day school trip to Australia. Here you will be able to prepare your trip by discovering Sydney and Canberra.

But the main purpose of this blog is to increase public awareness about the extinction of koalas in the Eastern coast of Australia.

To know more about koalas: LISTEN!

Listen: "Protecting Koalas" 

The director of the Koala Conservation and Research Foundation is giving a speech about the protection of koala populations in Australia.

1) Listen carefully to the speech "Protecting Koalas" several times

2) Create an Excel table and list information you get from the audio extract on the following themes:

- Names of Iconic animals of Australia (2 animals)
- Places where koalas live (3 places)
- Reasons of koalas death (4 reasons) 
- Number of koalas killed yearly: 

SEACH, READ, UNDERSTAND!

The Australian Koala Foundation

1) Try to find the reasons which motivate the Foundation to protect koalas.
Make 3 hypotheses.

2) Go to the following website and try to gather information on the Australian Koala Foundation and check your hypotheses. 

https://www.savethekoala.com/about-us/about

3) To help you, answer the following questions:

- What kind of organization is the Australian Koala Foundation? 
- What are their aims?
- Where does the foundation intervene?

4) Imagine that you are a journalist. You have to write a short article on the foundations and its goals. Present the foundations in 150-200 words. Then Post it as a comment on this post. 

WHERE DO WE GO?