By Brendan Casey The Herald Sun
LAL LAL STATE FOREST, Australia — In a clever act of quick thinking, a group of university students have managed to save a trapped koala from a mine shaft — twice.
Outdoor education students from the University of Ballarat were shocked to stumble across a koala that was stuck down a five-metre mine shaft in the Lal Lal State Forest, located about 10km east of Meredith.
The group of 16 third-year students quickly formed a plan to help rescue the trapped marsupial by lowering a tree branch down into the shaft for it to climb up.
Full story: Ballarat University students rescue trapped koala from mine shaft in Lal Lal State Forest