Our long-awaited Education and Volunteer Centre, possible through a $78,000 contribution from the Federal Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development’s (DIRD) under the National Stronger Regions Fund and a bequest from our former Care Coordinator Pat Barnidge, has finally got off the ground. We received approval of our Development Application (DA) from Lismore Council on 8 November … Read more
News
Ballina koalas faced with extinction
BALLINA koalas will die off over the next 50 years regardless but with the help of Pacific Highway upgrades between Woolgoola and Ballina, the NSW … [follow link to original story…]
Where are Cowra’s koalas?
This is the question being asked by koala researchers John Callaghan and Maria Matthes, who have been engaged by Cowra Council, with funding from Local Land Services, to undertake a preliminary koala survey in the Cowra area.[follow the whole story here]
REVEALED: Koala habitat reaches new heights
The area is a known home to one of Queensland’s last remaining healthy koala populations, but the parcel of land concerned was relatively bare … [follow link to original story…]
Community strives to re-introduce koalas to central Queensland
Nearly one hundred years since hunting reduced koalas’ local range to isolated pockets, researchers, conservationists and landholders are teaming … [follow link to original story…]
Valuable koala app tool
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council has partnered with the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital to develop an app that provides improved access to data and … [follow link to original story…]
Koalas are at the centre of a perfect storm. The species is slipping away
Australia is one of the worst performing countries in terms of protecting its ecoregions. Koalas are a litmus test for conservation of a habitat in crisis. [follow the link for the full story]
Care Centre full – see some of our koalas
So far in the first six months of this year we have taken more koalas into care (300) than for the whole of last year. Today we have 20 in care at the Care Centre, 8 in home care and a changing number (lots) at Currumbin and Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospitals. Have a look at … Read more
Enhancing refuges & corridors for threatened species in Lismore
Funding was received in 2016 through the NSW Environmental Trust to restore Koala habitat and connectivity between remnants on public land in East Lismore. The project, Enhancing refuges & corridors for threatened species in Lismore, is funded for three years and covers seven sites with a total of 28 hectares targeted for restoration works. The … Read more
