Meghan Halverson is a talented filmmaker and passionate about koalas, and she has combined these two elements to create movies that inspire others to also care about the koala.  Below is her latest movie and its reason for being, in her own words. More

I pity the staff of Department of Environment & Heritage Protection (DEHP) charged with managing wildlife, ecosystems and sustainability, for the conflict the Queensland government has now established in policy with the Mines Minister announcing changes to the Vegetation Management Framework.  In the name of ‘greentape reduction’, significant land will be open to wide scale clearing of regrowth and remnant vegetation.   More

Some months ago I alerted members by email to this upcoming documentary which we thought would air on ABC at the end of last year, but is now to air on National Geographic later this year. More

Everything you can read on koalas will tell you they only eat eucalyptus leaves.  It’s what we know. More

I don’t know why it is, but cows kill koalas.  More

Ecotourism is the fastest growing sector of the world’s largest service industry.  It doesn’t rate a mention in Tourism Australia’s current strategy.  More

One of the wonderful benefits of membership to KoalaTracker is the element of education. The koala is such an important economic asset (the biggest drawcard for inbound tourism), an environmental indicator, and iconic of Australia’s unique wildlife, it continues to astound me how little we know about it. More

While state governments progress with undoing the Howard government's reigning in of gun ownership, allowing unsupervised hunting by 12 year olds, and proceed to allow hunting in our national parks (see list), all governments remain weak at the knees with regard to outlawing the slaughter of dugongs, turtles and the rare snubnose dolphin. These animals are allowed to be killed under Native Title laws, giving indigenous Australians the right to kill endangered and vulnerable wildlife.  More

The long-time regular members of KoalaTracker are aware of the time I have dedicated to this project.  What few realise is that the direct cost to me in creating this national koala mapping portal now exceeds more than $200,000, inclusive of real out-of-pocket expenditure and time volunteered, sometimes at the expense of other work. The personal cost has been great, but it remains a project that I passionately believe is important.  More

The federal government’s Atlas of Living Australia has more than 27,000 koala sighting reports, but with only 64 since the start of 2010, the Atlas, as it pertains to koalas, is an historic rather than living record.  More

The Queensland state governments assess koala habitat on the colour of pixels in a satellite map, and base infrastructure and development decisions upon that. Already, Koalatracker.com.au has proved that habitat value, as determined by this means, has little relationship with where koalas are living today. More

It is five weeks since the koala was listed as vulnerable in Queensland, NSW and ACT.  More

It's a big day for koalas, because finally we have a decision. A decision that will compound local government and infrastructure planning challenges and radically alter property development in Queensland in particular, but a decision that will nevertheless provide a last chance for our dwindling koala population.  More

Updated April 18: At the request of members, this site has a new name, a new map, and in just five days...200 new members. Last week seems such a long time ago... More

Here Anika kindly shares with us the stories of orphaned koala joeys she has cared for. More

Member, Kathryn Kermode, has made a valuable contribution to Koalatracker.com.au. She has watched and documented a colony of koalas in her neighbourhood of Kyogle for some time now. Keeping track of them with the help of Koalatracker.com.au brings insight to the health of koalas on a regional basis, rather than along localised, state or electoral boundaries.  More

Does the Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) really have a case against Powerlink, the government corporation responsible for the construction and maintenance of high voltage transmission lines? There is no question the quality of power supply to the northern end of the Sunshine Coast and hinterland is sub-standard and on the plus side, new high voltage transmission lines will smooth the spikes. On the negative, it will also deliver the infrastructure necessary for the government's desired doubling of population in the area. But wait, there's more... More

Each day it seems, I find it harder to claim to be a proud Australian. We are a nation of rorters, scamming the government - our fellow tax-payers - of millions of dollars of funding for an initiative to provide jobs and reduce energy consumption as the country faced a potential crisis. There we are milking a program to build much needed public education facilities - literally robbing our children of basic infrastructure.  And we are disgracefully skimming the indigenous housing scheme, leaving entire communities still living in the dirt.  More