Koala food trees: Port Macquarie Koala Hospital habitat coordinator Steve Withnall with some of the trees before people collected them. Property owners have snapped up 10,000 free tallowood seedlings in just under a fortnight. The koala food trees went to properties from the Camden Haven to the … [follow link to original story…]
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Mascot’s ‘cousin’ crashes Comm Games party
A “cousin” of Commonwealth Games koala mascot Borobi has appeared on stickers around the Gold Coast. Stickers featuring a lookalike to the … Mr Peters said he encouraged the creators of the ‘Sorrowbe’ campaign to discuss with GOLDOC how to work with them to help the city’s koalas. Queensland … [follow link to original story…]
Koala finds a hero firefighter
One lucky koala who escaped the weekend inferno was lucky enough to find a hero firefighter on Ayresford Road, near Terang, to help quench his thirst. … From within the firetruck, a firefighter can be seen giving the koala a drink of water in an area where trees are strewn across the road. Watch the … … Read more
Koala care strong at first community workshop
KOALA experts passed on crucial information to the community on Wednesday evening as part of the first Koala Community Workshop. Held at the Noosa RACV resort, about 60 people gathered in the function room to learn more about the iconic creature and how they could help protect the local … [follow link to original story…]
North Coast koala populations in danger from land clearing
North Coast koala populations have declined by 50 per cent in just 20 years but NSW Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton has signed off on land clearing laws which endanger remaining populations, according to the National Parks Association of NSW. NPA chief executive Alix Goodwin said the land … [follow link to original story…]
Joey’s horrendous tick infestation results in blood transfusion
Little Mafeking is a testament to the amazing work our vets and wildlife hospitals are able to perform. He was found under a clothes line, cold, bleeding from his face and arms and crying for his mother – he was only 9 months old. Upon seeing him, my first thought was dog attack and time … Read more
Wollondilly Koala Conservation Project confirms shire has a core habitat that is disease-free …
FIFTEEN koalas are being tracked as they travel through Appin and the Wollondilly shire as part of an innovative conservation project. The Wollondilly Koala Conservation Project has confirmed the shire has a core koala habitat that is healthy, breeding and part of the only population in the state that is … [follow link to original story…]
Premier urged to stop koala-habitat logging near Bellingen
Eight NSW environment groups have written to the NSW Premier urging her to intervene to protect an area of Gladstone State Forest, near Bellingen, vital to the protection of koalas in NSW. Logging operations are planned in Gladstone State Forest where hundreds of koala scats were found by … [follow link to original story…]
Research sheds light on mite causing wombat mange
Bribie Island-raised PhD student Tamieka Fraser, who is jointly enrolled at USC and the University of Tasmania, was lead investigator on a recently-published study that for the first time sequenced a genome in the scabies mite infecting two Australian marsupials, wombats and koalas. The debilitating … [follow link to original story…]
Vegetation laws won’t help save koalas
KOALA experts say stronger land clearing laws will do little towards preserving koala populations due to inaccurate mapping data and a lack of balanced cleared and timbered land. The Koala Foundation estimates there are less than 100,000 koalas left in Australia with loss of habitat usually the first to … [follow link to original story…]
