Kiwis Love Koalas

Snow, frost, cold strong wind, jagged snow-capped mountains - and not a gum tree in sight. Hardly the sort of conditions in which one might expect a Koala to even survive, let alone thrive, but as Augusta Westland's head of civil sales for Australasia and Pacific Rim, Martin Biles and the team from Australia's Augusta distributor, Heliflite, have been demonstrating, New Zealand's topography, temperate climate and environment have proved to be ideal habitat for one particular species! By Rob Neil