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KoalaTracker is Australia's national koala map and database, mapping the location of koala populations, points of impact and causes of death and injury for the public record. KoalaTracker empowers localised advocacy, enables more effective risk mitigation, adds to research and engages the community to save the koala. This blog discusses the knowledge gained through member submissions, koala mapping and location intelligence, scientific research and government action. Please join the conversation.

Nobody should be allowed to hunt endangered wildlife KoalaTracker Blog
Alex Harris - Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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

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Going, going, gone... KoalaTracker Blog
Alex Harris - Friday, June 08, 2012

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

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Why Bother? Australian wildlife are simply pests KoalaTracker Blog
Alex Harris - Friday, March 26, 2010

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

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