Queensland Koala Conservation Collective

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We are a community group that is focussed on advocating for endangered koalas across all of Qld by bringing together like-minded individuals and groups to collaborate on issues and solutions.

🌳Happy World Environment Day!🌏The UN established this day to raise awareness and encourage government, business and the ...
04/06/2026

🌳Happy World Environment Day!
🌏The UN established this day to raise awareness and encourage government, business and the community to tackle ecological crises.
👎But just days ago, a Bill was introduced in Qld that has the potential to move in the opposite direction.
⚖️"State Strategic Projects" will be able to bypass existing environmental and heritage laws, while giving ministers greater powers to override normal assessment processes.

🚜We've already seen habitat disappear at an alarming rate. We know that once mature habitat trees are cleared, they cannot simply be replaced.
🌱Offsets cannot recreate decades-old ecosystems overnight.
🆘And when environmental protections are weakened, wildlife often pays the price.

🌟Queensland's future prosperity should not require us to sacrifice the very landscapes, wildlife and natural heritage that make this state special.

❓The question isn't whether development should happen.
🔎It's whether Queenslanders should still have confidence that environmental laws, scientific assessment and community scrutiny will remain part of the process when decisions affect our shared future.

💪Because when protections are bypassed and power is concentrated in the hands of one person, it's not just habitat that's at risk. It is also transparency, accountability, public trust and the very environment that we all rely on and our heritage that defines us.

🐨The true test of leadership isn't how quickly approvals can be granted, but how carefully we protect what can't be replaced. It is about science, balance, responsibility and a sustainable future that we can all be proud of to leave for future generations.

🔗 https://www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in/2026/06/04/environmental-bypass-to-fast-track-oil-project

🔗 https://www.miningday.com.au/qld-to-fast-track-key-projects-by-bypassing-environmental-and-heritage-laws/

🔗 https://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/105202

🌍The world is watching Queensland's koala crisis💭This cartoon published by The Guardian is satire, but the fact that an ...
03/06/2026

🌍The world is watching Queensland's koala crisis
💭This cartoon published by The Guardian is satire, but the fact that an internationally recognised news organisation has highlighted the destruction of koala habitat in Qld should make us stop and think.

🐨The koala is our state emblem, an Australian icon, and a species now listed as Endangered.
🚜Yet habitat continues to be cleared
🌱Offset fees are paid for saplings that won't help koalas for years and are often far away so won't help the impacted koalas.
⚠️The direct and cumulative impact on koalas isn't recognised - what it means for them sourcing sufficient quality leaf, what that means to their movements and the risk of crossing roads and yards, to the extra energy they will exert doing that, to the stress it causes, to the territorial fights, to the increase in illness & disease - to name a few.

⚖️While recent habitat loss has been shocking, what is even more unbelievable is the laws and policies that allow this.
🆘For years, the state and federal government has allowed the continued loss of koala habitat through planning systems and exemptions that often prioritise short-term development over long-term survival.
🚨This week, the Qld government announced changes to the State Development and Public Works Act, further increasing concerns that environmental protection can be overridden even more easily.

🐾It's not just a matter of state and national responsibility, pride and reputation. This is the last of it's kind, a unique creature that exists nowhere else in the world. As temporary inhabitants of this world, we have an obligation to allow continuation of this species that survived a millennia before us.
🙈As we approach Qld Day, we must ask what it says about us when the world is expressing outrage over how we treat one of our most iconic and endangered animals.

02/06/2026

Please watch & share. The reference to national shame is gutting but is real at the moment. Surely we can do better than this?

WARNING - POTENTIALLY DISTRESSING IMAGEThe Year That Koalas Shocked Qld Politics📅Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint what sh...
01/06/2026

WARNING - POTENTIALLY DISTRESSING IMAGE
The Year That Koalas Shocked Qld Politics📅
Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint what shifts an election
🐨But in 1995, koalas are credited as being the driver!

🌳It started in 1994 when the Qld government wanted to plough through Daisy Hill’s koala rich bushland with a new road
💥Locals rallied, never imagining that they were sparking one of Queensland’s most extraordinary political bombshell moments.

📰A large newspaper ad showed a koala mum & joey - road strike victims - headlined by “Don’t Kill Us Mr ...." (we obscured name). There was public outrage.
💔Then two koala road strike victims were placed on the Executive Building stairs, triggering front page headlines and statewide shock.
👥A public meeting turned into one of the biggest environmental protests seen in Qld, with >5,000 people.
🙌People stood shoulder to shoulder to give a voice to the voiceless koalas.
💚Not 'greenies'. Everyday people who had never protested before knew that they must - and the government had gotten it wrong.

Sound familiar? 🤷‍♀️
Back to 1995:
📉Within a year, an unlosable 71% approval rating collapsed to 43% in the state election, barely enough to hold power.
🛠️While attempts were made to placate the people with a technical fix and a Koala Coast Protection Plan, it was too late.
💬The community felt unheard and that trust had been lost.
❌They said no to an 'at all costs' mentality, that longer-term thinking was required and that once lost, it's lost forever.
🆘Koalas weren’t even threatened then, unlike today.

🏆Everyday Queenslanders had the foresight that the government didn't, and the passion to stand up and prevent koalas being failed.
🙏If you were there, thank you, and we'd love to hear from you.

⚡That community movement reshaped the political landscape in Qld in the most extraordinary, unpredictable way and 30 years on, history is echoing
🌳Habitat is being destroyed across Qld, even when 'protected'
🐨The community know and see the impact which is sometimes at odds with the rationale and spin
📲Calls and emails are going unanswered
🤷Nobody is fully accountable - it's always someone else's fault
🙈🙊🙉 The system is designed that way
🫵It's not good enough. More balance and accountability are required.

💚The community is again standing up for our koalas and green space.
🫶United by heartbreak and hope, rallying and refusing to let them become collateral damage from arms-length representatives and bureaucrats who will never witness the impact and trauma.

🐨While koalas had a huge impact in 1995, it was the people defending them who changed history.

📷Image/news story credit - The Courier Mail

🚨Please send a submission - see comments for 2 templatesWhile Ormiston has received a lot of attention recently, this sa...
31/05/2026

🚨Please send a submission - see comments for 2 templates
While Ormiston has received a lot of attention recently, this same event is unfolding across Qld, often where the community of support of much smaller and often where the koalas have even less protection (yes, it's hard to believe that is possible)!
Please complete the below by 9/7/26 - it will only take a few minutes!
1️⃣Click the shared post to understand the issue
2️⃣Go to the comments - there are 2 by the author (Pryde Wild Life) with objection templates that you can copy and amend to suit
3️⃣Send them separately via email to [email protected]

The cumulative impacts of habitat are not being considered - piece after piece is being destroyed with koalas having to try to figure out how to navigate and survive in what is left. They aren't.

If everyone could take a few minutes to do this it will help this population but if you could take a few minutes once a month, we can help the koalas across the state that are suffering the same fate - we just don't get to see it.
Thank you!

🐨Thank you to everyone who showed how important our endangered koalas are to the community and how disappointing it is t...
31/05/2026

🐨Thank you to everyone who showed how important our endangered koalas are to the community and how disappointing it is that they've been failed yet again.
👥It was great to see so many in a peaceful protest on Delancey St for Leaf, her joey and the male koala who remain in the thin strip of trees that are left on this site.
🌳For two days, they’ve refused to leave their respective trees. While they're present, these trees can't be felled.
🍃They have been in a thin strip of trees that remain, on the very outskirts of what has been cleared, likely confused and terrified and nowhere to go with their favourite trees felled and even stepping stone trees removed. The size of some of these fallen trees - not to mention the mulch piles - are incredible. We hate to think of what other species have been impacted by this as well.
🤷‍♀️And despite being told this habitat was “transient” and “low value”, these two koalas are proving that this habitat mattered.

What people witnessed today was devastating.
💔Adults were weeping as they looked up at Leaf and the male koala, confused and stranded in a tiny patch of trees surrounded by the wreckage of decades‑old habitat.
💔Children asking why so many trees were destroyed when koalas are endangered.

🥰The core group was around 200, but people came and went so the final number was likely much higher.
🪧Many said they had never protested in their lives but felt they had no choice in the face of such senseless destruction and failure

🙋‍♂️In talking to other groups, they have never seen this level of support - ever- for our koalas.

📨Support is great, but action is the only thing that can try to protect the trees that are earmarked for destruction. Email Jarrod Bleijie, Murray Watt the Premier and your state and federal MP and tell them that our koalas deserve better.

💪Even though much has already been lost, hopefully some can be saved from even further carnage. But we must also focus on preventing such critical habitat from being destroyed again.

🛡️This area has the greatest level of protection in Qld for koalas. Imagine if it had the lowest level of protection!



Ormiston Koala Group Koala Action Group Koala Rescue Redlands & Surrounds INC

Please attend to show support for our Qld koalas if you can. If this critical habitat can be destroyed when it has the '...
30/05/2026

Please attend to show support for our Qld koalas if you can. If this critical habitat can be destroyed when it has the 'highest protection' in Qld, no koalas are safe.
It broke our hearts to see 2 koalas now on the outskirts of a thin strip of bushland (with more to be cleared), staring out at what used to be there. Thanks to the Redlands groups for fighting for Leaf and the other koalas who have been forgotten and ignored.

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