What is your role? As Volunteer Coordinator, my role includes the recruitment and induction of new volunteers, maintaining our volunteer database, keeping new and existing volunteers up to date and informed about what is going on at FOK and ensuring that new volunteers receive effective training for their roles. A big part of what I do is matching volunteers … Read more
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Faces of FOK: Q&A with Dominique
What is your FOK story and when did you join? This is my second year volunteering with Friends of the Koala, I started in February 2020. I first started doing work with the Nature Conservation Council and in around 2019, we were doing a campaign for the state election about the forestry agreements and those … Read more
Faces of FOK: Q&A with Heather
What is your FOK Story? Well, I retired and went on a big trip. And then when I came back, I realised what I wanted to do more than anything is get trees in the ground. I knew Mark Wilson the Nursery Manager and about the nursery at Friends of the Koala, so I came to volunteer. They desperately … Read more
Koalas Need More Than A Population Census: An Open letter to the Federal Environment Minister
Dear Minister, We, the undersigned, who are leaders in koala conservation, habitat revegetation, rescue & rehabilitation, representing every state within the koala’s range, call on you to … READ MORE>>>
13-Year-Old Koala Whisperer From QLD Is About To Get Her Own Netflix Show
… with The Dodo and Nomadica Films and was created, filmed and set Australia. “Izzy’s Koala World” will premiere on 15 September 2020! [follow link to original story…]
Koala sanctuary man’s special gift for animals after losing everything in bushfires
Five months on from the deaths of three pilots who saved a NSW koala sanctuary, it has unveiled a tribute to them – naming three surviving koalas … [follow link to original story…]
Koala breakthrough following bushfire devastation
There’s a glimmer of hope for Australia’s Koala population devastated … Dr Karen Ford, ANU Researcher told Deborah Knight koalas have been … [follow link to original story…]
These koalas escaped disaster. Now they are getting a second chance.
As I travel to the koala sanctuary at Two Thumbs Wildlife Trust, I can’t escape the memories of last summer. We all carry these unspeakable memories … [follow link to original story…]
