By Dan Satherley
Australians this week have been shocked by two separate koala shootings – one of them fatal.
On Tuesday night in Melbourne, a man reportedly shot a koala out of a tree, finishing it off with two more shots as it lay on the ground defenceless, before escaping in a dark blue 4WD.
Earlier that day a joey and its mother were found shot and injured in the North Brisbane suburb of Caboolture. The mother is in a stable condition after having a pellet removed from her leg, but the joey, since named Doug, is in a critical condition at Terri Irwin's Australian Zoo on the Sunshine Coast.
Whoever shot Doug and his mother faces a AU$300,000 fine if caught.
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