Deb Mostert is an artist based on the border of Brisbane and Ipswich, Queensland who has been practising art for over 30 years. Much of Deb’s recent artwork focuses on documenting, recording and creating an aesthetic agenda around pressing environmental issues. In 2022, her work ‘Koala as Object’ was selected for the Korea-Australia Arts Foundation … Read more
News
Rehabilitation and release – Clooney and Karla
Recent rehabilitation and release stories – the handsome Clooney and beautiful Karla – two koalas we recently rehabilitated and released back home to the wild. Clooney Clooney is, as the name suggests, a handsome male koala who was admitted to FOK in December last year. Clooney had conjunctivitis in his right eye but otherwise appeared … Read more
Happy Valentine’s Day
Move over puppies and kittens there is a new cuddly creature in town this Valentine’s Day! What could be cuter than a koala in love? Magnus is besotted with Kookie however, unfortunately for him, Kookie doesn’t seem to reciprocate the love. Both have been with us for a while – Magnus was hand-raised by us … Read more
February at Koala kindy
G’Day from a beautiful summer’s day in the Northern Rivers! Let’s see what our kindy kids have been up to lately, it’s all happening! Thanks to Brad our wonderful photographer for recording some of the kindy antics – they are cuute! Pudding In January, our koala kindy gained another new joey – Pudding, a little … Read more
Celebrating Our Volunteers
Over the Christmas period, our volunteers and staff were busy making sure that our koalas were still being cared for and so on January 21st it was finally their time to celebrate the end of another year and their outstanding contribution to Friends of the Koala. Our volunteer recognition event aims to, in a small … Read more
Research & Diagnostics Laboratory
We are incredibly excited to be able to announce that we are very close to opening a brand new Research & Diagnostics Laboratory! The new lab will enable us to maximise the potential for rescued koalas to be accurately treated for disease in our hospital with in-depth, rapid diagnostic information to support disease control and … Read more
Life-changing Legacy
Creating a will is a great way to ensure your possessions go where you want them to, so the people you love are well looked after. And while you are doing this, you could choose to include a gift to a charity or cause of your choice. You may be aware that in Australia we … Read more
Adoptions + calendars + social media = long term sustainability
Some of you might be aware that our Instagram account with more than 45,000 followers was hacked and taken down last October. We were devastated. While we still had our Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, these are nowhere near as popular. We and other organisations engage with our followers most on Instagram due to the visual … Read more
The story of Chunky and Junior
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
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
