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We are a community group dedicated to saving the remaining animals at White's Hill Reserve and surrounds, and advocating to help protect our endangered koalas. 🐨 🦘🌳

🌧️It's not a great day for walking, or spotting koalas!🥰So we were thrilled when Tracey sent us some of her lovely photo...
18/10/2026

🌧️It's not a great day for walking, or spotting koalas!
🥰So we were thrilled when Tracey sent us some of her lovely photos from the koala count last weekend so we could get (and share) our fuzzy dopamine hit!
👀We spotted a few of these same koalas - but it's surprising how standing in a different spot at a different time can capture a different aspect of their personality!

📸If you've got any pix from the count or recent walks, feel free to share them and any special insights in the comments!
🤩We could look at koalas all day! It sure beats doing washing in this weather!
🗓️Have a great week!

🐨We were excited to hear how Noreen was going at yesterday’s presentation at Pooh Corner Environmental Centre on ‘Re-est...
16/10/2026

🐨We were excited to hear how Noreen was going at yesterday’s presentation at Pooh Corner Environmental Centre on ‘Re-establishing a koala population’

Flashback to July 2023📸
🪄For those who haven’t followed us for long, Noreen’s story turned tragedy into community magic.
🤏She was only 400g in mum, Doreen's pouch, when they suffered 2 hit & runs in 9 days on Boundary Rd, Camp Hill/Coorparoo.
🚗Both times, Noreen became dislodged and left alone, but desperately needed mum for warmth and regular feeds
😔It wasn’t until Doreen was in hospital both times that it was discovered that Noreen was missing - and we later learned that one of the car strikes occurred 4 hours before rescuers were called!
🍊Community members searched tirelessly for this little grapefruit-sized joey both times and incredibly found her!
🦺This was the spark that built our rescuer support team - which since evolved into the koala rescue powerhouse of local heroes - Koala Rescue Brisbane South
💪While Doreen didn’t survive the 2nd strike, tiny fighter Noreen incredibly did
🍼Angela from QKS hand‑raised her until she was ready for release into Pooh Corner in 2024.

Fast forward to today ⏩
🎓Mason Visser updated us on the project to repopulate Pooh Corner and Wacol Bushlands with koalas. We loved hearing about the first time he saw a koala and how it has become a passion for him - this is often the case, so engaging people in understanding our koalas is so critical.
🌟Firstly - the best news - Noreen is still loving life in the bushlands!
🌳This translocation project is led by Dr Sean FitzGibbon, Dr Bill Ellis and the Koala Ecology Group at UQ, funded by BCC
📏 Pooh Corner is ~140 hectares and Wacol Bushlands ~40 hectares.
❓Koalas once lived here, but the last one was seen in 2011
📅The first koala was released in late 2022, with 15 released in total (9 males & 6 females)
🐾Two didn’t survive due to a fall and underlying health issues, but the rest are thriving - an incredible result given the nearby train line and highways.
🌱Most of the released koalas have established home ranges within ~300m of their release sites
🌳Preferred tree species include gum‑top box, blue gum and grey gum - with nine species used by all koalas.
🍼Six known young have been recorded so far and some clean‑skin koalas (not part of the program) have moved in, bringing the total to around 20-25 so the area is thought to be at capacity.
👏Translocation of koalas is very difficult and has failed in the past, but this was successful due to the age of the koalas, health, distance, tracking and all of the research and work to achieve that
🧬DNA research is planned to understand relationships and genetic diversity to guide future decisions.

⚠️The terrain is completely different to our other reserves - and although we knew that there was live am******on in the area, the signs were a shock to see!
🚆There’s a constant hum from the Ipswich Motorway, Centenary Motorway, train line and nearby industrial estate, but the bushland itself is peaceful and full of birdlife.
💧This bushland sits between Bullockhead and Wolston Creeks - a critical ecological corridor.
🛣️The challenge is that the reserve is isolated, and if the population grows, koalas have no safe options - but they also can't stay and inbreed.
🌏The closest bushlands require crossing busy roads, including Woogaroo Forest (where Murray Watt - Senator for Queensland has just confirmed koala habitat will be destroyed) Greenbank, White Rock and Spring Mountain
🗺️We urgently need federal, state and all local governments working together on reconnecting habitat, protect existing habitat and for sustainable development that preserves habitat, corridors and steppingstone trees

🙏 Huge thanks to everyone involved in this program and today’s presentation

👶It’s joey season!🐨Last year’s joeys are too big for mum’s pouch, so they’re riding proudly and comfortably on mum’s bac...
14/10/2026

👶It’s joey season!
🐨Last year’s joeys are too big for mum’s pouch, so they’re riding proudly and comfortably on mum’s back.
✨Or doing gymnastics on their exhausted mum, like this cheeky bub!

💛Mums are teaching joeys as much as they can about being a koala - what leaves they can eat, how to climb, where their home range is.
🐾Meanwhile, some mums will already have a new joey in their pouch from this season.
🏈Joeys smaller than a football can’t survive on their own for long as need mum to learn how to be a koala, for food, safety and warmth.
🌳Older joeys are moving away from mum and returning for safety but will soon leave - or be pushed out - to find their own home range.
💥This is a really dangerous time for joeys who will be exploring areas that they’re unfamiliar with and will be pushed back and forth by more dominant males who won’t tolerate another male in their territory.

💪Males are still very active for breeding season.
🌙October is our areas busiest month for koalas as they're crossing roads and yards, risking contact with cars and dogs - particularly late afternoon to mid morning.

Please help keep our boys, mums and joeys safe:
🚗 Slow down and scan roadsides ahead. Koalas are very hard to see, appear suddenly and can walk straight in front of cars.
🐶 Keep dogs on a lead in public and indoors at night. Most dogs have never seen a koala and are very triggered by them. Koalas don’t read the cues but are very easily injured by dogs.
🌳Keep a tree - and plant a new one. Every bit of canopy helps them move safely.

🔮Each of these actions helps our local koalas survive but also contributes to the survival of this endangered species.

🐨People think koalas are “protected” in Queensland, but this wasn't the case for 146 local koalas last year. 📉They were ...
13/10/2026

🐨People think koalas are “protected” in Queensland, but this wasn't the case for 146 local koalas last year.
📉They were lost, all within 6k of Whites Hill.
🌳When local, state and federal representatives tick a box to approve habitat destruction, they never see the confusion, trauma and suffering that follows.

Just some of the stories from last year:
💔Luke was hit by a car 3 times in 9 months, including twice on the state government’s local koala death trap - the M3 - where 22 koalas died last year. Yet they have failed to take action on this short strip of road where koalas continue to be killed. Luke wasn’t even 5 but suffered so much in his short life.
💔Tristan was rescued after 2 koalas were hit by a car on Pine Mountain Rd. He had multiple injuries but was released after a month. But just 2 months later he was found deceased in a nearby culvert.
💔Hope & Hope’s mum were hit by a car at the entrance to Griffith Uni. Mum didn’t survive. Hope was found on the footpath, wet and cold and only 280g. She had multiple injuries which she couldn’t overcome, although she fought hard for over a week wasn’t able to
💔Kaija was hit by a car on Creek Rd near Cavendish Rd - a regular koala crossing point. He had previously survived a fall onto a fence below, causing facial injuries.
💔Priscilla was only a young koala that hadn’t long left her mum and was found hit by a car at the entrance to Whites Hill near the lights. She had a jaw injury which would impact her ability to eat.
💔Nat was found walking slowly on the footpath on Kessels Rd near QEII Hospital so taken to hospital for a check where it was found that he had multiple injuries from being hit by a car.
💔Lyn was only a young koala that wouldn’t have left her mum long ago. She entered a yard with a large German Shephard who grabbed her by the back and shook her, causing multiple severe injuries.

📖Every single one of those 146 koalas had a story and most of them weren’t pretty.
🫶We knew many of these koalas and so did the locals who saw them moving through their local home ranges. These koalas were all different, with different personalities.
🦕They earned their place in this landscape, evolving flawlessly over millions of years and outliving megafauna - only to be threatened now by us.
🗓️This years cases are no better.
🗺️We must plan and develop better, smarter, more sustainably.
🚗Every corridor that is severed pushes koalas onto roads, into yards with dogs and other threats.

📗It is up to our us and our representatives to ensure that humans aren't the final chapter of their story.
🙈🙉They won’t act unless they think that this is important to their constituents.
🫵There are obviously lots of important issues and they’re paid to manage them all, including ones like this that are irreversible if they get it wrong.

How to help
📧Ask your local, state and federal representatives to do more to truly protect them by protecting their homes and implementing improved threat mitigation.
🙋‍♀️Let us know if you'd like to help protect them

🪦Extinction is forever
🙏Thank you to the volunteer rescuers, carers, hospital staff, advocates and community who tried to help these koalas on the worst day of their all-too-short lives.

12/10/2026

This is another koala impacted by habitat loss, with trees on this block and footpath removed and many eucalypts in surrounding properties and streets removed. How are they supposed to survive here Brisbane City Council Queensland Environment.

🌿What an incredible morning at the 2026 Whites Hill Great Koala Count.👥120 people came from across Brisbane, the Northsi...
11/10/2026

🌿What an incredible morning at the 2026 Whites Hill Great Koala Count.
👥120 people came from across Brisbane, the Northside, the Gold Coast and even overseas, all excited to see koalas in the wild.
🗺️Six groups set off across different trails.
🐨We found 68 koalas, including lots of precious joeys.
🧁At the end of the walk was morning tea, presentations and prizes.

💛The last count found 45 koalas, so today’s increase is encouraging - possibly due to more participants and favourable conditions last year producing more joeys.

🐾But more joeys mean many will soon disperse out of the reserve - or be pushed by dominant males - to find their own home ranges.
🚗They’ll be crossing roads, moving through yards and facing risks from cars and dogs as they search for somewhere safe to live.

😔The lowlight: straight after the count, a large German Shepherd was running off‑leash right near us - in an area where a mum and joey were seen this week.

⚠️This is exactly the danger koalas face daily. There’s an off‑leash dog park just down the road. Letting dogs run in on‑leash parks - especially in an endangered koala conservation area - is really unfair.

💚Wonderful to see Renee Coffey MP and Steve Minnikin MP supporting the event, and great to meet Jacqui, who has started with Brisbane City Council to help our koalas. It's always great to see the volunteers from Koala Rescue Brisbane South Inc., Queensland Koala Society Inc The Rescue Collective and Australian Conservation Foundation

🤝Thank you to Friends of Whites Hill Reserve for organising and everyone else who attended, volunteered, baked, guided, spotted and supported today’s event.

Please help keep our koalas safe:
📣Spread awareness.
🚗Drive slowly, especially from dusk to dawn.
🐕Keep dogs indoors at night and on‑lead in public.
🌳Keep trees, plant trees, protect trees.
📨Ask your local, state and federal reps to help protect them.

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