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... 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. The koala is in a turf war, and losing.  Drawing on recent research into... More

Everything you can read on koalas will tell you they only eat eucalyptus leaves.  It’s what we know. “Koalas are strictly leaf eaters.  Koalas have strong regional preferences for certain eucalypt species.   In a particular district, koalas may feed almost entirely on one or two species.” - Department of... More

I don’t know why it is, but cows kill koalas. It is not just in Gippsland. Farmers need to be aware of the danger to koalas. Cows will circle and trample to death a koala traversing ‘cow’ territory. Perhaps it is the male’s bellow that draws the cows’ attention, or... 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. The importance... 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.  South Africa has already proved the economic contribution of wildlife with tourism being the country's largest earner of foreign currency, the largest employer (providing one in twelve jobs)... 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. This is in stark contrast to the data captured by our crowdsourced KoalaTracker... 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. Ideally, the quality of koala... More

It is five weeks since the koala was listed as vulnerable in Queensland, NSW and ACT.  In that five week period, more than 400 reports were added to KoalaTracker.com.au, many of those are deaths and injuries dating back several months.  Vulnerable doesn’t come close to describing the situation for the... 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. Koalas in NSW,... 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... April 11th: On awaking this morning I found the domain name, koaladiaries.com.au had been removed from this site.... More

Here Anika kindly shares with us the stories of orphaned koala joeys she has cared for. DAVEY Davey was found in August 2009, weighing 875 grams, approx. 8 months old, abandoned by his mother. Residents said she is an old koala and has been around for many years. Davey came... 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... 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... 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... More