Completar frases A brief story of koalasVersión en línea Read the following text and fill in the blanks with the given words. por Marta Garcia Garcia 1 on was are was expedition given in on killed are is were came or no until naturalists were know is were been Species protested In the days before Europeans to Australia , there many more Koalas than there now . Since European settlement in 1788 , much of the Koala's bushland has cleared for farms , towns , roads , mines and logging , leaving many Koala populations with homes food . From the early 1800's the 1920's , millions of Koalas hunted and for their furs . Many people upset about this and to the government , and eventually the Koala made a Protected in all states by 1937 . This means that no one allowed to harm a Koala . However , there no laws to protect the gum trees which Koalas rely for food and shelter . John Price , a servant of Governor Hunter , the first European to record Koalas January 26 ( Australia Day ! ) 1798 during an to the Blue Mountains . In 1814 , the Koala was the scientific name phascolarctos cinereus , meaning ? ash - grey pouched bear' , by French and German . Today we that the Koala not a bear . It is a marsupial .