Tag: koala
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KOALA SURVEYS TO FIGURE OUT CENTRAL COAST POPULATIONS
We’ll soon have a better idea of just how many koalas are on the Central Coast. Sightings were reported around Yarramalong and Kulnura earlier this year. Now Local Land Services is contacting residents to figure out if the marsupials are in their patch. Central Coast Council will follow suit in spring, setting up recording equipment…
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KOALA FOOD TREES POISONED IN GOONELLABAH
Lismore City Council is investigating the illegal poisoning of trees in a Goonellabah neighbourhood park. Council says holes were drilled into the trunks of two trees and filled with poison. “One’s a mature Tallowwood tree or Eucalyptus microcorys, which is a really important tree as a habitat tree for Koala’s, for our local Koala population.”…
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LISMORE KOALA HOSPITAL AT FULL CAPACITY
As the bushfires continue to burn, more and more koalas are at risk. A koala hospital in Lismore is struggling to cope with the influx of injured animals.
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KOALA NUMBERS IN FOCUS AT STATE INQUIRY
Habitat loss and the threat of climate change were highlighted today as a state government inquiry into declining koala populations began in Sydney. It’s feared the species could be extinct by 2050. Among those making submissions, a Port Stephens group, which indicated numbers in the region are now a quarter of those seen three decades…