Latest news on koalas

New 19/1/24: Quarry Application Withdrawn New 18/1/24: Press Release Residents gather to share concerns over new quarry Local residents Glenn Todd and Tiffany Harrison, learnt just before Christmas that an application to construct a...

The big news for 2023 was the Victorian Government finally driving the final nail into native forest logging's coffin, by ending logging in ~1.5 million hectares of native forest. The decision now means that...

Some updates from 'Koala land' regarding what SKAT has been up to over the past couple of months. It's certainly been hectic. A couple of big events are looming fast, the first being the...

Friends of the Earth is urging anyone interested in the future of koalas to get involved in collecting koala scats over the next few months. The State Government's recent budget allocated money to better...

Several months ago, Friends of the Earth applied under Freedom of Information Legislation, for details pertaining to how the Victorian State Government dealt with FoE's 2022 application to the Federal Government regarding EPBC listing...

Environmental cliche no. 444. "Its a marathon, not a sprint". Where were you in October 2006? 17 years ago, John Howard was Prime Minister, Kim Beazley was opposition leader. Steve Bracks was Premier and...

A new scientific study by Biolink Ecological Consultants and funded by the Myer Foundation has revealed that Morwell National Park and surrounds are likely to be the source population of the highly significant Strzelecki...

SKAT has started surveying again in the Mullungdung/Stratford region of Gippsland. Recent surveys have found scats between Stradbroke and Giffard. A koala was also observed at Stradbroke on the edge of a pine plantation...

Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Friends of Gippsland Bush (FoGB) remain frustrated by the amount of time it is taking to get forest areas added to the Brataualung Forest Park in the Strzelecki...

In June 2020, Friends of the Earth found a potential spray drift incident which impacted on a two kilometre native forest boundary of a pine plantation located in Holey Plains State Park. The impacted...