Two Thumbs Wildlife Trust

04/06/2026

Before my house burnt down on the 23rd of January 2020. In my role as Wildcare's (NSW) Koala Coordinator, I organised for a team from the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital to come down to our area to help with the search and rescue. Not long after checking this echidna's feet to make sure they were not burnt, I spotted a koala in a tree. With the help of Port Macquarie team we rescued the koala. We called off the search after this, because the wind had picked up and the risk of previously burnt branches falling was too high. This was the first koala rescued in the Numeralla area during the Black Summer Bushfires. With the amazing help from the Australian National University and the great veterinary efforts, this koala was one of the 78% successfully rehabilitated and released back into the wild.

03/06/2026

Well done David White!

02/06/2026

We need to protect koala habitat.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/996139996207689/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

31/05/2026

Amazing

🚗 Australia is electrifying its iconic road trains — bringing zero-emission heavy freight to the world's longest truck routes.

Australia's road train network is legendary. Triple and quad trailer combinations stretching up to 53 meters haul everything from cattle to minerals across the vast Outback distances of Western Australia, South Australia, and Queensland. These vehicles are among the heaviest and longest road freight combinations operating anywhere on Earth — and they run on diesel in quantities that would fill a backyard swimming pool on a single long-haul journey.

Electrifying road trains requires battery packs of extraordinary capacity — or alternative technologies. Fortescue Future Industries is developing hydrogen fuel cell road trains for its iron ore mining operations in the Pilbara — where the mine's own green hydrogen production can fuel vehicles on the fixed routes between mine and port.

For the highway network, Janus Electric has developed a battery swap system specifically for Australian road trains. Rather than waiting hours to recharge a depleted battery, drivers swap the road train's battery pack at a Janus charging station — a process taking under 15 minutes — and continue their journey. The depleted packs recharge at the station using renewable electricity while other packs are swapped.

Janus is deploying swap stations along Australia's major freight highways — the Stuart Highway, the Eyre Highway, and the Great Northern Highway — targeting the high-density freight routes where swap station economics are strongest.

Austroads — 2024

31/05/2026

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-31/bushfire-smoke-impacts-on-unborn-children-as-climate-changes/106700352?fbclid=IwY2xjawSI2etleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR5syIt3JJzNePb4TdHcvK7gL_tjAi0K8b7y0KWRuchY-OgVR_gQqe2mxYfOuQ_aem_NtHqJUbgUBrXjwLknG5OEQ

Years after bushfires covered their cities in smoke, mothers are left wondering if their children's chronic illnesses began with what was in the air before they were born.

31/05/2026

27/05/2026

Koalas eat less in hot weather. Prolonged hot weather could be a problem for a species that has to eat a lot of leaf (up around 10% of their body weight each night) to meet their nutritional requirements.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-05-27/koala-deaths-linked-to-a-few-extra-degrees-of-heat/106722276?fbclid=IwY2xjawSDmvJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR7BpRkiy38tCZj0rYEKOgWznfwjJCF-3KQD-V62D_cUzOzuVOn0jLoZ_ZKORg_aem_E6UH3gWrbdOQYke1FZiApQ

The risks of death or hospitalisation of koalas increases as soon as seven-day average maximum temperature is above 27 degrees Celsius, a new study shows.

21/05/2026

Steve Whan our local member of state parliament, was good enough to take the time in NSW Parliament House to remember the American Air Crew. Captain Ian McBeth, First Officer Paul Hudson & Flight Engineer Rick DeMorgan jr (this was from 2025 but I just stumbled across it).

A Private Members' Statement concerning the 2020 crash of bomber 134.