Australia has lost 30% of its koala population in a 3-year period starting in 2018, as conservationists call for the species to be granted endangered status. The loss/decline in koalas is due to the effects of habitat destruction, bushfires, domestic dog attacks, and road accidents. The Australian Koala Foundation estimates that there are less than 100,000 koalas left in the wild, possibly as few as 43,000. What do you think LiveTribers, how can we help save the koalas?
Posted by on 10 Feb 2022
News out of Gippsland Vic, is that 4 Lucky Young Boys will travel to South Australia for a Breading program. Why these Lucky Fellas (KOALAS) Seems the Gippsland Koalas do not have chlamydia, So the Happy Young Koalas will be very suitable for the breading program. These Young Male Koala will be right at home in SA seeing the Old (Bucks) Koala Males would or have chased them out of the Group. Old story, all the Females for the Old Koalas. Information came from ABC/News.
How cute .
Over the past 12 months we have ‘adopted’ three koalas through the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital. We know in the scheme of things it is only ‘a drop in the ocean’ but we feel the need to support the organisations that work tirelessly to help our native animals in their time of need.
How good of you. If more people did this it would be a tremendous help.
I knew about the dog that searches for koalas and thought that the Federal Govt as starting to fund services like Australian Koala Foundation but it seems that it is only certain ones from what Eileen has said. Pity we cant do this through Live Tribe in some way via points donations.
Aussies really don't care! For 11 years the Queensland Koala Crusaders have struggled, worked, fundraised, trained rescue dogs (remember Bear in the bushfires?) cared for the rescued sick, injured and orphaned koalas, planted thousands of food trees, battled with Councils and Governments, visited schools to encourage the next generation or their children will never see a koala in the wild, written stories for the Media. One of our members (a Frenchman) checks every single day on our local koalas. We rescue the sick or injured, transporting them to Australia Zoo or Wacol (round trips of up to 500klms) and then place them with a volunteer carer before returning them to their habit, if it hasn't been already cleared for another retirement home or shopping mall. Have you even considered that "We" must collect special koala food tree leaves by the carload to keep those in care alive? Yet, the majority of our members were not born in Australia !!!!!!!!! We ask for donations to help our volunteers manage the around the clock feeding and making safe enclosures. Daily we are racing to yet another rescue after a dog attack or car accident. We struggle to train our rescue dogs who are trained by two wonderful FRENCH women. We race from the Sunshine Coast or Gympie to Brisbane trying to find the precious pap which is the only food/milk we can give orphaned joeys. We fundraise, run stalls and I knit koalas for sale and yet people just walk by, make excuses or just don't give a stuff. We spend a small fortune in petrol travelling to Brisbane and even Canberra to speak with Governments. We protest about the clearing of our precious remaining habitats which are mowed down for yet another retirement village , nursing home or shopping mall. Angry? Yes I am angry. For 11 years it has been our dream to get a sanctuary so we don't have to euthanise our sterilised females and those with chlamydia. Yes, we may have a hopeful vaccine coming but we just do not have the funding and cannot get the Australian Government to invest in its research. The Body Shop UK (not Australia) gave us a wonderful grant and with land donated by Noosa Council and State Forestry our volunteer members were able to plant some 28,000 essential food trees. Every time we get excited and think our dream of a sanctuary and education centre is almost possible and we are on the way to a deposit to buy land, another major emergency occurs or another koala protection group in another region needs urgent help, or we have catastrophic bushfires and all our help goes to other areas and even our rescue dogs are needed in another State Everyone says, "We need to do something to protect our koalas" . Who are the "We"? What do you personally do? The current cost of petrol is adding to our woes. We are getting older and constantly battling ignorance, speeding cars, dog owners who let them run free and the expectations that someone else will do it. If you are still reading this them you at least show we do care so if you do nothing else just look at www.koalacrusaders.org.au or your local koala protection group and instead of saying "We should" say, "I WILL DO SOMETHING".
I think you all do a wonderful job. I thought there were huge donations after the last bush fires which decimated a large area of Australia. Unfortunately, there are so many areas that desperately need donations and people only have so much to spare and with many out of jobs or limited hours since Covid hit this has become even more so. Every charity is screaming for donations. Australians are generous but there is only so much money to spare these days. We too have to suffer the rising living costs, petrol prices, rents, food, you name it and soon interest rates will go up. How good of the Noosa Council and State Forestry. Perhaps you should approach more councils to donate land as I am sure the ratepayers would all be happy about that. We do pay for things in the Gold Coast Rates like open space including Koala Habitat space, maintenance and enhancement. I am not sure if other councils also include these extras. Perhaps you need to ask where this money is as it must amount to millions as there are over 500000 ratepayers who pay around $60 annually for Koala Habitat. Maybe start out by asking people to buy a tree which is suitable food so you can plant them in appropriate areas. It is only a small amount that many might be able to afford. Perhaps get a petition to put to the government to fund the investment in research. I am sure most Aussies will sign it willingly. Don't get disheartened. People do care but sometimes with all the problems everyone is facing people these days they just need to be reminded.
Find a cure for endemic chlamydia, drought and developer greed.....good luck with the last two!!!
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