Polar Star is one of the most adorable and interesting discoveries by Friends of the Koala’s Project Officers, Ms. Maria Matthes, and Ms. Ina Egermann, during their regular koala health checks for the fantastic Friends of the Koala project “Hanging out at East Coraki: koalas thriving in an agricultural landscape,” supported with funding from the … Read more
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Plant more trees
This month we celebrate World Nature Conservation Day on July 28th to create awareness about the importance of our environment, natural resources and safeguarding our ecosystems. It is also National Tree Day here in Australia, which encourages tree planting, environmental care and preservation. Both days are a good reason to reflect upon why we here … Read more
Encourage a love of wildlife
We know that many of our followers are keen conservationists whose care and love of the planet and all things on it most likely rubs off on everyone around them – little people especially so. For those of you who would like more help with ideas on how to nurture the innate love for animals … Read more
The wild story of Wendy the Koala
One of the most time-consuming roles within koala care is the art of hand-raising a baby koala, known as a joey. Most joeys are in home care for months at a time. In home care, joeys need regular 24/7 care, with the youngest feeding every two hours – just like a newborn! Our volunteer koala … Read more
Northern Rivers Koala Conversations
The Northern Rivers Koala Conversations event was an action-packed fortnight of activities about all thing’s koala. The event aimed to highlight the value of grass-roots activities to improve conservation outcomes for koalas. The event was funded by the NSW Koala Strategy through the Northern Rivers Regional Partnership. The program represented a wonderful collaboration with Friends … Read more
Donate to save koalas
Our beautiful koalas face multiple threats. Threats brought about largely as unintentional consequences of our lifestyles including: urban development, habitat fragmentation, tree-logging, agriculture, disease, as well as natural disasters related to climate change. But it is not all doom and gloom. Many, many beautiful people are giving koalas and other wildlife a voice and work … Read more
National Volunteer Week 2024
It’s National Volunteer Week. As a volunteer-based organisation with close to 300 active volunteers, all of whom contribute massively to the conservation of koalas, recognising and appreciating our volunteers is really important to us. A huge thank you to each and everyone of them! Together, we are an incredibly resilient force in koala conservation – … Read more
Koala Kindy May 2024
Well it’s that time of year again in the Northern Rivers, when most of our little fledglings are young, wild and free again. Release is an integral part of our rescue efforts, if not the most important part of it. Our job is to rescue sick, injured or orphaned koalas and restore them to optimum … Read more
The NSW Koala Hospitals Alliance
We are thrilled to announce the formation of the NSW Koala Hospital Alliance launched aptly on Wild Koala Day – May 3rd 2024 and proud to be part of group of likeminded people focussed on saving the koala from extinction in NSW. This is a monumental occasion for koala conservation efforts in NSW. Read the … Read more
World Endangered Species Day 2024
As we approach World Endangered Species Day on 17th of May, we would like to raise awareness of the importance of wildlife conservation, our beloved koalas and celebrate some wins. Our beautiful planet is the only known planet to host life – many different kinds of life – what taxonomists estimate to be approximately1.7 million … Read more
