Sterilisation: Conservationist Says Wind Farm Threatens Koala Mating Habits

While many conservationists support renewable energy, the development of wind farms is proving to be divisive.

A seven month-old Northern Koala joey clings to his mother Tara after emerging from her pouch at Sydney Wildlife World in Sydney, Australia on July 31, 2007. Ian Waldie/Getty Images

Roger Martin is a zoologist who lives in Queensland’s far north Atherton Tablelands, and has spent much of his career studying the marsupial.

He feels many are unaware of the plight of Australia’s endangered koalas, with a line-up of wind farms proposed in the state’s most precious remnant forests.