Kiwis start petition to relocate koalas to New Zealand

As far-fetched as it is, i'm actually not entirely opposed to this idea, but I think research would need to be carried out to ensure that the koalas were being introduced to environments which will not be a detriment to the species. Koalas are native to Australia. Even though New Zealand has a similar temperate climate to us, there's no guarantee that koalas would be able to successfully integrate into New Zealand's ecosystem. After all, they would be an introduced species, not a native one. Still, New Zealand would probably do a better job at protecting the species than what we do...