Koala Diaries Blog

Nothing is more heartbreaking to koala rehabilitators than the loss of a rescued, injured koala. A lot of expertise, time and emotional energy is invested in each and every animal saved. It is gut-wrenching for them to continue to treat the same animal, time after time as it is returned to the location of rescue, to again be hit by a car or mauled by a dog. There was a situation last year where the same koala was patched up four times, until he eventually died. To then hear as we did recently about a koala and her joey being shot, is devastating.  The baby joey, named Doug by rescuers, died this week.  More

Today I have been perusing archive material very kindly loaned to me by a long-time koala campaigner in Noosa Heads, Isobel Pert.  It is depressing stuff – boxes of carefully filed material outlining the exhaustive efforts of many people to protect Noosa’s koala population over a span of some twenty years.   I sat bolt upright in my chair when I happened across early photographs of the residential estate where I now live – see Bulldozers Destroy Koala Habitat images (dated 1997) in the member photo gallery.   More