Koala Diaries Blog

It's been a while since my last blog post.  Mindful that much of what I've written previously has been of a faintly depressing tone, I was waiting for something overwhelmingly positive to write about, lest I become a whinger ... I am still waiting. More

If I was in a more positive frame of mind I would add a question mark to the heading of this blog post.  However, yesterday I was reminded that there is no need for that – it is a statement of fact that Queensland has, and continues to fail its koala population. More

Each day it seems, I find it harder to claim to be a proud Australian.  More

The gorgeous koala on our member pages is a joey named Bart. Cared for by Vanda Grabowski of the Koala Action Pine Rivers group, his is a story that mirrors the situation faced by urban koalas today. Here is Bart's story, by Vanda: More

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