#koalas — Public Fediverse posts

Beware of Drop Bears Signage - 'Slow Down, Koalas on Road'. Stay safe, social media folk. Meta-marsupials are on the move, footloose, and fancy free. #koalas #dropbears

https://www.europesays.com/people/222734/ In 1974, an Australian ranger proposed turning a service bridge into a wildlife corridor; 52 years later, it opened over a motorway carrying 40,000 vehicles a day, reconnecting two national parks #AnimalHabitatConnectivity #CawleysBridge #EnvironmentalConservation #HeathcoteNationalPark #InfrastructureForWildlife #JeffBezos #koalas #RoyalNationalPark #SustainableLandscapeDesign #WildlifeCorridor #WildlifeCrossing

Logging the Promised Land, Bellingen/ Gleniffer

Promised Land Forest! Tuckers Nob, 250 ha, 130ha clearfall, 120 ha thinning.

Stakeholder Consultation - Remnant Forest Protection & Tuckers Nob Forestry Operations Compartments 8, 10, 11, 12, 17 18 >>
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TuckersRemnantsSurvey-Residents

How NSW Forestry converts native forest to plantations , Dr Tim Cadman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY9HzWwEvs

Unfortunately most residents and Friends groups use (closed) proprietary social media platforms, owned by the parent company of Meta Platforms
#SaveTuckersNob #FriendsOfTuckersNob #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #loggingIndustry #loggingIndustry #loggingImpacts #biodiversity #remnants #wildlife #koalas #harm #Gleniffer #Bellingen #PromisedLand #NSW #MIdNorthCoast #SaveChristmasHoles

Koalas at risk of death once seven-day temperatures rise beyond 27C
Nutritional and climate refugia for koalas

"Extreme heat is a major factor in the number of deaths and hospitalisations of Australians every year....An analysis of 11,862 koala rescue admissions to NSW animal hospitals found the marsupials were more likely to die when the seven-day average maximum temperature was greater than 27 degrees Celsius."

"Dr Mella said water stations could be left out as well as shade structures built for koalas in hot regions like north-west NSW. We do that for cattle and we do that for animals that we use for our needs, so we really should be doing it for wildlife as well."

When koalas rests low to the ground in the shade trying to beat the heat they are usually chased and injured by dogs and car. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-05-27/koala-deaths-linked-to-a-few-extra-degrees-of-heat/106722276
#Koalas #refugia #FossilFuels #heatwaves #drought #climate #cars #sprawl #dogs #NSW #MassMortalities #widllife #extinctions #DomesticAnimals #HeatRelatedRisks #biodiversity

🐨🍼 Scientists at the University of the #SunshineCoast in #Queensland, #Australia, are milking #koalas to analyze their milk.

They found the liquid contains unique proteins that kill harmful #bacteria and #fungi. The #research helps explain how joeys survive in their mothers’ pouches and offers clues for better koala #conservation.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/koala-milk

#koala #biology #marsupials #mammals #wildlife #science #evolution #zoology #biochemistry #nature #microbiology

Dreamworld Gold Coast
without the koalas

Koala habitats would be impacted under the proposal to expand Dreamworld.

Coomera resident "said he could hardly believe it was the same suburb where he once saw koalas in the trees. "It's all gone...It's just wall-to-wall suburban development."

"Dr O'Hare said instead of clearing vegetation and koala habitat for the project, developers should use 7 hectares of land occupied by a car park." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/dreamworld-expansion-considered-concern-traffic-gridlock/106469590
#biodiversity #koalas #sprawl #Cars #traffic #CarDependence #CarParks #Coomera #LandClearing

Man's best friend - First eradicate the Neanderthals, then biodiversity

Humans and their dogs drove our evolutionary cousins Neanderthals to extinction
"Early dogs, bred from wolves, played a critical role in the modern human’s takeover of Europe 40,000 years ago when we vanquished the Neanderthal locals. The Neanderthals, who had lived there for more than 200,000 years. However, within a few thousand years of our arrival, they disappeared...Humans and hunting dogs were, and still are, a deadly combination." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/01/hunting-with-wolves-humans-conquered-the-world-neanderthal-evolution

Man’s best friend may be nature’s worst enemy, study on pet dogs
“Many owners simply don’t realise the environmental damage dogs can cause, from disturbing wildlife to polluting ecosystems." >>
https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/mans-best-friend-may-be-natures-worst-enemy-study-on-pet-dogs-finds/

Bad dog? The environmental effects of owned dogs
"The sheer number of dogs contributes to global carbon emissions and land and fresh water use via the pet food industry. " >>
https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/pdf/PC24071

#dogs #dog #pets #HumanAnimalInteraction #carnivores #DogAttacks #penguins #koalas
#extinction #Biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #water #pollution #faeces #disturbance #zoonoses #PetIndustry #meat #ecosystems #climate #shorebirds #beach #ExtinctionCrisis #Neanderthals #BellingenShire #EcologicalDisturbance #IntroducedSpecies

Immer weniger Tiere werden für ihre #Felle getötet🐇
ein neuer Impfstoff soll die Überlebenschancen von #Koalas verbessern 🐨
und eine neuartige Methode verspricht große Fortschritte beim Sortieren von #Plastikabfällen 🫗

Unsere neue Ausgabe ist da 👇

https://squirrel-news.net/de/news/globale-pelzproduktion-bricht-ein/

Koalas depend on bats

"Without the bats, the koalas wouldn't have the trees. So the bats are the ones that are fertilising those big eucalypts that koalas love."

"A lot of people overseas when they think of Australia, they think of koalas." In Australia "there's ...a lack of awareness about the role of bats in controlling insect populations, pollinating plants and spreading seeds, much like birds and bees do."

"Perceptions have consequences: The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) says more than half of the state's species are in decline, or their status is unknown, due to a lack of research."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-28/australia-bats-poor-reputation-covid-links-and-vampire-myths/103669082
#koalas #bats #FlyingFoxes #eucalypts #mining #misconception #superstition #EcologicalLiteracy

The koala is an icon for Australia

Images of politicians and tourists seen cuddling the threatened marsupial are ubiquitous. The mascot, usually placed on a stump, has to pose and represent the 'brand' Australia.

Due to habitat destruction the animals are deprived of a living habitat and have to flee. The fragmented habitat they have to negotiate is crisscrossed with roads and dangerous canines.

The verge of the roads and the gutter is the koala's new designated home. The slow arboreal animal has to face speedy cars, trucks and pet dogs. The industrial destruction of biodiversity, native forest logging, has the largest kill-score. In one case the “koala massacre” killed 40 in one 'harvesting' operation.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/03/koala-massacre-animals-reported-starving-or-dead-after-plantation-logging

In Victoria three rotting koalas were found recently beside a country road within a week.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/sad-reason-koalas-were-found-dumped-inside-cardboard-boxes-beside-country-road-061958594.html

Here in Bellingen, where Tuckers Nob public forest is being industrially logged, all images cropping up are of disoriented koalas on daytime roads. There will be nothing left to cuddle soon.

Friends of Tuckers Nob have pictures of Roadside Koalas of the area near the logging sites.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/250189120465227/

Desperate koala looking for a tree
https://www.tiktok.com/@candyandcalvin/video/7322989951233150216

#koalas #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NativeForests #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #BellingenLogging #WildlifeCrimes #wildlife #cars #crashes #roads #RosesRoad #roadkill #biodiversity #KillingCorridor #Sydney #AppinRoad #SaveTuckersNob

Turning a blind eye to roads and dogs in koala conservation

In the early 1900s farmers, hunters and government officials opened the koala-hunting season. Now the extinction of the koala is driven by land clearing, sprawl, vehicle crashes, dog attacks and logging.

The framing of (koala) conservation stops where human habitat and their mobility design (roads to everywhere and speeding vehicles) fragments the habitat of the endangered wildlife.They haste from the remaining refuge island to to the next refuge island. If the speeding vehicles won't smear them across the road, they end up mauled by introduced roaming carnivores.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14486563.2023.2173321
#Koalas #EndangeredSpecies #conservation #ecology #EcologicalSurveys #wildllife #sprawl #pets #dogs #cars #roadkill #roads #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #biodiversity #extinction makers

Stop doing harm
"Ban politicians from posing with captive native animals until Australia's extinction crisis is reversed. Australia is the only first-world nation in the top 10 deforestation hotspots."

"Another area of contention are Australia’s Regional Forest Agreements, which essentially prevent the Commonwealth from interfering in the states’ native forest logging operations."

"The answer to protecting koalas is simple. Stop doing the harm. Stop approving new coal mines. Stop subsiding gas expansion. Stop native forest logging. Stop making excuses,” Polly Hemming, Australia Institute
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/environment-ministers-koala-photo-op-sparks-surprise-backlash-020216809.html
#NativeForests #RegionalForestAgreements #deforestation #koalas #wildlife #posers #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Stop doing harm
"Ban politicians from posing with captive native animals until Australia's extinction crisis is reversed. Australia is the only first-world nation in the top 10 deforestation hotspots."

"Another area of contention are Australia’s Regional Forest Agreements, which essentially prevent the Commonwealth from interfering in the states’ native forest logging operations."

"The answer to protecting koalas is simple. Stop doing the harm. Stop approving new coal mines. Stop subsiding gas expansion. Stop native forest logging. Stop making excuses,” Polly Hemming, Australia Institute
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/environment-ministers-koala-photo-op-sparks-surprise-backlash-020216809.html
#NativeForests #RegionalForestAgreements #deforestation #koalas #wildlife #posers #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Stop doing harm
"Ban politicians from posing with captive native animals until Australia's extinction crisis is reversed. Australia is the only first-world nation in the top 10 deforestation hotspots."

"Another area of contention are Australia’s Regional Forest Agreements, which essentially prevent the Commonwealth from interfering in the states’ native forest logging operations."

"The answer to protecting koalas is simple. Stop doing the harm. Stop approving new coal mines. Stop subsiding gas expansion. Stop native forest logging. Stop making excuses,” Polly Hemming, Australia Institute
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/environment-ministers-koala-photo-op-sparks-surprise-backlash-020216809.html
#NativeForests #RegionalForestAgreements #deforestation #koalas #wildlife #posers #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Stop doing harm
"Ban politicians from posing with captive native animals until Australia's extinction crisis is reversed. Australia is the only first-world nation in the top 10 deforestation hotspots."

"Another area of contention are Australia’s Regional Forest Agreements, which essentially prevent the Commonwealth from interfering in the states’ native forest logging operations."

"The answer to protecting koalas is simple. Stop doing the harm. Stop approving new coal mines. Stop subsiding gas expansion. Stop native forest logging. Stop making excuses,” Polly Hemming, Australia Institute
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/environment-ministers-koala-photo-op-sparks-surprise-backlash-020216809.html
#NativeForests #RegionalForestAgreements #deforestation #koalas #wildlife #posers #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Stop doing harm
"Ban politicians from posing with captive native animals until Australia's extinction crisis is reversed. Australia is the only first-world nation in the top 10 deforestation hotspots."

"Another area of contention are Australia’s Regional Forest Agreements, which essentially prevent the Commonwealth from interfering in the states’ native forest logging operations."

"The answer to protecting koalas is simple. Stop doing the harm. Stop approving new coal mines. Stop subsiding gas expansion. Stop native forest logging. Stop making excuses,” Polly Hemming, Australia Institute
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/environment-ministers-koala-photo-op-sparks-surprise-backlash-020216809.html
#NativeForests #RegionalForestAgreements #deforestation #koalas #wildlife #posers #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Half of species under threat in NSW are on course to become extinct in next 100 years

Stop business as usual , stop logging and land clearing now!

The review "found n a t i v e f o r e s t l o g g i n g was damaging f o r e s t e c o s y s t e m s and the habitat of native species and was scathing of the state’s offset scheme."

"Laws meant to protect the environment in New South Wales are failing and unlikely to ever succeed unless substantially changed, according to a scathing review that warns half of the species under threat in the state are on course to become extinct within the next 100 years."

"The independent review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act, released on Thursday, makes 58 recommendations to overhaul nature protections in the state and commit the government to preserving the environment for future generations."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/24/nsw-environment-protection-laws-unlikely-to-succeed-without-major-overhaul-damning-review-finds
#Biodiversity #Conservation #NSW #law #koalas #GKNP #BellingenLogging #NativeForest #Logging #NewryStateForest #StopLogging #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #climate #extinction makers

Logging the Great Koala National Park, Tuckers Nob State forest, Bellingen

#Bellingen #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #koalas #biodiversity #conservation #GKNP #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #destruction #climate #bushfires

The Bellingen logging sites, Tuckers Nob State forest, Gleniffer Road
It should have been a Great Koala National Park.
One can assume that the proposed logging along Tuckers Nob State forest, compartment 26/27 will also look like this.

#Bellingen #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #koalas #biodiversity #GKNP #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #destruction
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A Letter to NSW Government for the urgent need to install the long-promised Great Koala National Park
https://timcadman.wordpress.com/2023/08/03/the-urgent-need-to-install-the-long-promised-great-koala-national-park/
#GKNP #TarkeethStateForest #TuckersNobSF #logging #Broadscale #ClearFelling #NSW #koalas #habitat #biodiversity

Impact of Roads and Vehicles on Wildlife Populations
"With over one billion cars on the planet (OICA 2016), the global scale of wildlife roadkill is enormous. Estimates include anywhere between 89-340 million birds killed each year by cars in the US (Loss et al. 2014) and 29 million mammals per year in Europe (Grilo et al. 2020)"

"Estimates for Australia are limited but published studies have reported such figures as: over nine million kangaroos and wallabies struck on Australian roads each year (Burgin and Brainwood 2008); over 300 koalas killed annually on roads in southeast Queensland (QDES 2022); and over 40,000 frogs run over annually on one road in northern NSW (Goldingay and Taylor 2006)"

The Evolution of Wildlife Crossings in Eastern Australia and a Guide to 57 Iconic Sites, Brendan Taylor
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/news/item/book-in-focus-The-Evolution-of-Wildlife-Crossings-in-Eastern-Australia-and-a-Guide-to-57-Iconic-Sites

Extract
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-0142-3-sample.pdf

Road-crossing stepping-stones for gliders
https://theconversation.com/glide-poles-the-great-aussie-invention-helping-flying-possums-cross-the-road-209033

#book #RoadKill #koalas #birds #frogs #biodiversity #habitat #fragmentation #biodiversity #WildlifeCrossings #wildlife #roads #mortalities #MidNorthCoast #NSW #cars #speed #extinction makers

The NSW #Koala #Conservation efforts to provide a safer #WildlifeCorridor by erecting a sign have been nullified by speeding motorists after just two weeks. The koala sign has been unearthed and the sign has been stolen.
#BellingenShire #Bellingen #MoreRoads #Detours #Cars #Speeding #Koalas #NorthCoast #Biodiversity #Habitat

#Bellingen #Motorists knocked down a new #Koala sign which was installed barely three weeks ago and was two meters away from the road.
#BellingenShire #Cars #Detour #Traffic #LawFree #PromisedLand #Wildlife #Vehicle #Collisions #Koalas #Koala #Conservation #Efforts #HabitatFragmentation #WildlifeCorridor #Biodiversity #Extinction makers

Apparently we should do #introductions with lots of #hashtags so here I go. I love emojis 👍😁 I am a #conservation #conservationecologist specialising in #threatenedspecies #threatenedecologicalcommunities

with a recent focus again on 🐨🐨🐨🐨 #koalas #koalarescue #koalaresearch #koalaeducation #koalaadvocacy 🙏🐨💖🤗 I live with an amazing #population of 🐨🐨🐨 #BallinasKoalas who you will get to meet, along with #RichmondValleyKoalas & #SouthEastLismoreKoalas

This all means I love to study and understand all the #interactions within and between species 🐨🦘🦉🦅🐍🐸🪲🦇🐀🐢🐬🐋🐳🦭🐟🦀🐞🐝🐜🐛🦋🐌🦗🕷🌺🌸🌻🌼🌳🌲🌾🌿 and with their #environment 🌏☀️🌡💧🔥🌧🌩 my favourite topics are #populationecology from colonies/cells to #evolution #coevolution #evolution #genetics #fireecology #diseasemanagement #threatmanagement #reproductiveecology #demographics #climatechange #climateaction #adaptation #plasticity all the things that determine whether a species will persist or become #extinct

I support #FirstNations People and 💖 working on Country with #TraditionalOwners #sharingknowledge 🖤❤💛

I have two Jug #dogs Eli and Miss Angie - Jack Russell x Pug 🥰💕 At the moment we are #floodrefugees living in a camper-trailer in Northern NSW.

Look forward to exploring and sharing ideas and thoughts 🥰 meeting new people & catching up with those who left Twitter 😁