Friends of the Koala is excited to have received a grant from the Australian Government for its ‘Hanging out at East Coraki: Koalas thriving in an agricultural landscape’ – project and to be running the first Community Tree Planting Day on Saturday May 20th. The area is being overpopulated. The koalas survive on food trees … Read more
Habitat
National Eucalypt Day 2023
Happy National Eucalypt Day – 23rd March 2023! This year marks ten years of National Eucalypt Day. Find out why we are all nuts about gums (eucalyptus trees)! Multiple species of eucalypt According to the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, the term ‘eucalypt’ includes approximately 900 species in the three genera Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora. … Read more
Our nursery – food for our koalas
Friends of the Koala operate a native plant nursery which is open to the community by appointment. The nursery is located behind our Koala Hospital and issues koala food trees for $1 each to landholders with land where koalas reside in the Northern Rivers Region. Koalas rely exclusively on a small number of Eucalyptus trees … Read more
Drive cautiously in koala zones
*TW: Some topics we are covering in this article or post may be distressing for you. The article or post may deal with distressing subjects. We like to keep our posts light-hearted and positive, however, some situations require us to draw attention to an issue in order to change it in the future, even though … Read more
NSW State Koala Conference: The Vanishing
Save the koala habitat – come along to connect, learn and send a strong message to our political leaders in the run up to the state election: save koala habitat! This is a full day conference focusing on loss of koala habitat with presentations covering science and policy, as well as the experiences of local … Read more
Flux Goes Home!
Flux was spotted in a row of trees by a road in East Coraki shortly after the second floods (April 7, 2022) by one of our rescuers. He was not alone; there was a female in another tree. Both displayed severe signs of cystitis (very wet and stained bums). When both were found in the same … Read more
Update: Flood Affected Koala Food Tree Plantations
The 2022 flooding event impacted six of our seven plantations. Since the end of February, the plantation maintenance team have been working two mornings per week to clear flood debris and ensure access is possible for the leaf harvesters to collect food for the koalas in care. Each plantation was affected on differing scales, our … Read more
2019-2020 NSW Bushfires – Koala rescue & Rehabilitation Publication
As data coordinator, I was thrilled to take the opportunity to work with Dr Dan Lunney, Honorary Scientific Fellow at the DPE. Through some funding, a project was set up to examine data around koala rescues, rehabilitation and release. One of the data sets used for this project was the extensive Friends of the Koala data. While … Read more
