This Christmas, you can give a gift that truly matters – a safer future for koalas in the Northern Rivers and across Australia via timely and expert medical care for injured Northern Rivers koalas. Friends of the Koala is launching our Christmas fundraising campaign to complete the Northern Rivers Koala Hospital expansion. We need your … Read more
Projects & Campaigns
Give a Gift That Keeps on Giving: Christmas with Friends of the Koala
As the festive season approaches, many of us are thinking about meaningful gifts – sustainable stocking fillers that don’t cost the world and truly matter. With koalas under increasing threat, the team at Friends of the Koala invites you to give something special this year: a gift that supports real koalas, real habitats, and real … Read more
Koala Chlamydia Vaccine Update – 100 doses of Koala Vaccine delivered
Friends of the Koala are proud to share an exciting update in our ongoing work with the Chlamydia vaccine research trials with Professor Peter Timms, Dr Nina Pollak and Dr Samuel Phillips from the University of Sunshine Coast. This week, our team welcomed 100 doses of Koala Chlamydia Vaccine, the world’s first approved koala Chlamydia … Read more
World Conservation Day: Protecting Koalas Means Protecting Our Future
10 Powerful Ways to Help Koalas This World Conservation Day 2025 Every year on July 28, World Conservation Day reminds us of our shared responsibility to protect the natural world. Officially established at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972 as a day to highlight the importance of … Read more
Statement on the Victorian Koala Crisis
Friends of the Koala is deeply saddened by the recent events in Budj Bim National Park, where bushfire-impacted koalas were euthanised through aerial shooting. This tragic situation underscores the urgent need for comprehensive, humane, and transparent strategies to address the welfare of koalas facing habitat loss and environmental stressors. We echo IFAW’s call for an … Read more
Hospital Expansion
The Northern Rivers Koala Hospital officially opened in 2021 although we employed our first Veterinary Surgeon and received the approval to operate a specialist Koala Hospital in 2020, 5 years ago now. Since then, the demand for our services has continued to grow in response to the increasingly challenging environment for koalas. We now tend … Read more
Koala Kindy and Care Centre April 2025
G’day, g’day from the entire Friends of the Koala family and of course our furry friends! It’s hard to believe that we are already half way through April! Although our days are still warm (around 26 degrees) our nights are getting a little cooler! Below, you’ll see that the number of joeys being admitted has … Read more
Help save koalas in crisis after Cyclone Alfred!
Save our koalas, protect, rescue and restore! Many of you will be aware of our most recent setback for koalas – the extreme weather event that was Cyclone Alfred and it’s devastating impact on all people, housing, all wildlife including koalas. Already facing habitat destruction and the challenges of climate change, our iconic koalas are … Read more
Love for the Koala: Rehabilitation & Education Upgrade Project
At Friends of the Koala, we are dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, release and conservation of one of Australia’s most beloved native species – the koala. With the support of generous donors like you, we are embarking on an exciting new initiative: The Love for the Koala: Rehabilitation & Education Upgrade Project. This project aims … Read more
Koala conservation review
The beginning of a new year always gives us cause for hope and renewed energy for koala conservation. Whilst the challenges of Chlamydial disease, vehicle collisions, dog attacks and the other threats facing our beautiful koalas persist, so do we at Friends of the Koala and all the other koala conservation organisations and advocates – … Read more
