article_snippet: Animal activists are furious and have condemned the state government for Animal activists 'cruel' treatment of koalas and questioned why the program was conducted in secret.
article_snippet: Watching an animal starve to death is a horrible thing,' Dr Whisson, from Deakin University, told Daily Mail Australia. '
article_snippet: To the point where they don't move for the food supply. '
highlights_snippet: The animals were euthanised in response to overpopulation in manna gum woodlands in the area, about 230km southwest of Melbourne .
  
highlights_snippet: Animal activists are furious  and have slammed the government .