Latest news on koalas

January 2020: Old growth Mountain Grey Gum at Mirboo North. A newly mapped koala hotspot For many years, Friends of the Earth has been concerned about the only endemic koala population remaining in Victoria...

In early February, Friends of the Earth was appalled by yet another koala massacre in the south west of the State. A visit to the region last month confirmed our worst fears; Koalas that...

Many people would have seen the recent story regarding koala massacre currently occurring in South West Victoria published over the weekend.

On July 14th 2018, Victorian Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, the Hon. Lily D'Ambrosio, and Gunai Traditional Owner Aunty Doris Paton formally announced the creation of the Brataualung Forest Park in the...

Friends of the Earth received the good news that the first 1600ha of land, in the long running Strzelecki Ranges Rainforest Cores and Links saga, was Gazetted by the Victorian State Government on the...

October 4, 2017 Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (FoE) today welcomed Minister Lily D'Ambrosio's announcement that 1,200 hectares of land, including the Nationally significant College Creek has been handed back to the State....

Friends of the Earth has been alarmed by new footage showing that koalas are still be impacted on by plantation logging in South West Victoria. 

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH PRESS RELEASE Thursday July 24 2014 Friends of the Earth today released a new report on koalas and plantations. “The report hopes to shed some new light on this disastrous...

Over the last 6 months Friends of the Earth has been involved in a project mapping population numbers of the Strzelecki Koala. The Strzelecki Koala is the only remnant koala population remaining in Victoria...

A petition signed by over 83,000 people asking the Victorian Government to do more to protect koalas has been delivered to the Government. The petition, organised by the German environmental group Rainforest Rescue, was...