Brad Mustow is a Professional Photographer and a volunteer here at Friends of the Koala. Most of the photos that we share with you have been carefully taken by Brad. For over a year, Brad followed a koala and her baby that lived in his street and in that time he took some incredible footage. … Read more
News
January 2023 at Koala Kindy
It is a brand new year at FOK and our koala babies are growing up! This month we have quite a few changes with our joeys and can’t wait to share this update with you and photos of their cheeky faces. Let’s start with our youngest – Moby, she is doing well and continues to … Read more
Holiday Opening Hours
Christmas will pretty much be business as usual here at Friends of the Koala – our koalas still need our care and our 24/7 hotline will still be open for calls. We could even experience an increase in the volume of rescue calls because the roads are busier than usual with people travelling and our … Read more
December at Koala Kindy
All is well in our Koala Kindy – very busy and full of girly energy! Grouped together (for now, things change very quickly as these little ones grow up and go on to the next stage of their development), we have Seeana, Kula, Temika and Racquet – these joeys are all a little older and … Read more
Committee Members
Following our Annual General Meeting we want to take this opportunity to officially welcome and introduce our Committee Members and to thank past Committee Members for their hard work. We also thank everyone who made it to our AGM to hear all about our work over the past year. Special thanks to Brendan Taylor from … Read more
November at Koala Kindy
We currently have 7 joeys in our koala kindy – 5 girls and 2 boys – up until recently we had a larger number of boys so the girls seem to be taking over! Our newest joey, Seeana, arrived on the 5th November, she was found in a nearby tree after we received a call … Read more
FOK Koala Hospital and Koala Care Centre
Based in East Lismore, we operate the only dedicated Koala Hospital in the region in addition to running an Education and Administration Centre and a Community Nursery. Our Koala Hospital treats more koalas than any other koala hospital on the East Coast of Australia and offers 24/7 care with a veterinary team sponsored by IFAW … 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
Volunteers needed
Friends of the Koala operates on the generosity of our volunteers. We currently have 170 active volunteers who completed 54,000 hours of volunteer work last year. It is truly humbling to work with such a passionate group of people, showing up tirelessly for koalas and displaying incredible resilience amid devastating natural disasters and beyond. Friends … Read more
