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Australia's iconic koala is in serious trouble...

But communities are taking action to safeguard Victorian koala populations through research, surveys and mapping.

Our vision for koalas

We build community alliances in the South Gippsland region and across Victoria to support local citizens in learning how to survey and look for koalas. We believe that citizen science can lead...
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Mullungdung Reserve Campaign

Help us turn Mullungdung State Forest into a conservation reserve. Between June 2020 and September 2023, Friends of the Earth conducted 413 koala surveys and some random scat searches totalling over 2900...
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SKAT surveys completed at Won Wron State Forest

September 12, 2025

Friends of the Earth's SKAT collective has just completed koala scat surveys in the 7,000 hectare Won Wron State Forest, near Yarram. Won Wron is definately a stronghold of the Strzelecki koala, with perhaps as many as 500 koalas in the forest. The intensive...

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FoE Visits Mass Koala Shooting Sites at Budj Bim

May 20, 2025

On the 18th and 19th of May, Anthony Amis from SKAT (Friends of the Earth Melbourne's koala collective)  visited Budj Bim National Park, the site of Victoria's largest mass koala shooting and probably the first ever conducted from helicopter. Budj Bim was opened to...

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Hundreds of koalas killed in south west Victoria

April 19, 2025

Update 20/5/25: Friends of the Earth Budj Bim site visit see here Update 25/4/25: Locals are informing us that shooters have been shooting from helicopters at Budj Bim all week, meaning that hundreds more koalas have been killed this week. They are constantly hearing...

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Strzelecki Koala map

Check it out to see the spread of Victorias endemic koala population!
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