Our koalas are losing their homes & their lives
With thousands of trees bulldozed each day across Australia, our koalas are very quickly heading towards extinction in east coast states by 2050. And with critical koala populations still recovering from last summer’s devastating fires, they urgently need help now.
Nearly 3 billion animals were impacted by the fires – among them over 6,000 koalas who were killed in NSW alone. On a slippery slope even before this, they are now in a full-blown extinction crisis.
By adopting a koala today, you can help significantly increase the capacity of wildlife carers and medical facilities so injured koalas can get the care they need, create wildlife corridors that will allow them to move around safely, and rapidly restore large areas of koala habitat.
And for each koala you assist, you’ll be helping hundreds of other native animals too.
Your donation:
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Could help provide bandages and medicine for an injured koala
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Could help prepare a koala to be released back into the wild
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Could help plant a corridor of trees between threatened koala habitats
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It starts with Koalas Forever
We’re launching our ‘Koalas Forever’ program which has the ambitious goal – to double koala numbers along our east coast by 2050 and, in doing so, pull the precious populations we have left back from the brink.
By working together, we can turn the tide for koalas, benefit other priority species impacted by the fires and regenerate and protect key habitat areas.
Your donation today will help kick-off our Koalas Forever program, starting with top priority actions to:
- Protect the Richmond Valley Koala Triangle population – one of our most genetically diverse and resilient koala populations on the northeast coast of NSW – giving our koalas here the long-term stability they so desperately need.
- Create new koala corridors by planting 200,000 koala trees in the Richmond Valley, connecting pockets of isolated koalas to ensure their best chance of survival.
This is just the beginning of the impact you’ll have for our koalas. Future stages will include:
- Significantly increasing the capacity of wildlife carers and medical facilities, so injured koalas can get urgent treatment and the care to go swiftly back in the wild.
- Working with landowners to create a network of koala sanctuaries – safe refuges for koalas in core habitat on private lands.
- Using advanced tracking and monitoring systems to closely protect our remaining precious animals.
This is a turning point for koalas. We’ve lost a lot, but we haven’t lost them all yet. It’s not too late. Together we can tackle the koala extinction crisis head-on, to save as many vital koalas as we can, and to double their numbers by 2050.
