Reverse aerial footage looking directly down over a young, two year old plantation of Eucalyptus globulus, blue gum. Chetwynd, western Victoria, Australia, June 2023. Royalty-free licenses let you pay ...

High on the Ventura County hillside overlooking the city, a 15-foot-tall Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus tree was planted. It means Two Trees will remain Two Trees, perhaps long after it's Three Trees.

Since blue gum plantations were established in the 1990s, there has been a corresponding increase in koala populations throughout Victoria’s south-west. “Around Budj Bim in particular…koalas have ...

Alternatively, many non-native tree species such as eucalyptus -- especially the invasive Tasmanian blue gum -- are known for their high oil content, making them highly flammable, according to the ...

In recent years, koalas living in the state have been gravitating toward commercial blue gum eucalyptus plantations for food. But when the plantations are harvested every 14 years, their resident ...

In March, a massive bushfire burned more than 5,400 acres in the park, which injured some koalas and destroyed a great deal of eucalyptus leaves. The leaves are food to the koalas. Since the fire ...

State authorities are facing a backlash over the aerial culling of hundreds of koalas in Victoria, Australia, as animal welfare groups raise concerns about the fate of their orphaned joeys.

And an aerial cull “appears to be a very indiscriminate method,” Schlagloth said. Australia also has a long history of managing its wild animals — both native and nonnative — by killing them.

Thousands of koalas live in these plantations, and when the large eucalyptus trees are cut down, they’re forced to migrate into the already densely populated national park.

High on the Ventura County hillside overlooking the city, a 15-foot-tall Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus tree was planted. It means Two Trees will remain Two Trees, perhaps long after it's Three Trees.

And oh, yes, the eucalyptus — the Tasmanian blue gum variety, melancholy and romantic-looking, the Hamlet of trees. Driving up the 101 from L.A. toward Santa Barbara, you can see them in rows ...

In 1906, the Santa Fe Railway purchased the land grant to plant a blue gum eucalyptus tree plantation to use as railroad ties. But the wood proved too soft to hold railroad spikes.