Australia's diverse genetic koala to help save local population
STORY: Australia's diverse genetic koala to help save local population
DATELINE: March 31, 2022
LENGTH: 0:01:55
LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the koala
2. SOUNDBITE (English): STEVEN JOHNSTON, Associate Professor, University of Queensland's School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
STORYLINE:
A koala with diverse genetics could turn around the fate of endangered koala colonies along Australia's east coast, researchers from the Living Koala Genome Bank pilot program said.
Jagger is the first koala to be bred as part of the pilot program, led by the University of Queensland, and was introduced to the public on Tuesday.
The koala has been released into a colony at a conservation park on the Gold Coast, with the hope to improve the genetic diversity of the population in the long term.
Researchers said as Jagger is now in a new wild population, it will bring new genetics into that population to help improve the genetic makeup of the population that researche
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