Koala Alliance

04/06/2026

Thank you Nick McGowan MP for being the only politician to apply pressure on this lousy government to release the $850,000 tax payer funded report outlining the health and abundance of Vic koalas.

This report is critical to understanding how koalas are fairing and will inform conservation decisions to help them.

Labor refuses to release the report. It was completed 12 months ago.

What are they hiding?

04/06/2026

Amanda Stoker MP We reject your justifications to defend the destruction at Ormiston College.

The issue isn’t whether an environmental report can be produced saying these trees are replaceable, nor whether offset plantings can be promised somewhere in the future. The issue is that an already fragmented koala population is losing habitat today.

The college may be required to plant additional trees under its offset obligations, but what purpose does that serve for the koalas that have lost their connectivity, food trees and shelter trees now? Where will these offsets be planted, and which koalas will benefit from them if the remaining local population can no longer survive long enough to use them? Can you tell us?

A newly planted tree does not replace a mature habitat tree. It does not provide immediate food, shelter, connectivity or refuge. Koalas cannot simply wait decades for replacement habitat to mature.

This is why so many people reject the arguments being used to justify this approval. The habitat value of these trees is being treated as something that can be recreated elsewhere, at some future date, while ignoring the immediate impacts on the animals that depend on them today - endangered animals!

When governments create pathways that allow developments like this to proceed despite significant environmental concerns, the result is predictable. Habitat is lost, ecosystems become more fragmented, and wildlife pays the price.

The law may have allowed this decision, but that does not make it right. Weak laws are a problem but so are people in privileged positions who know how to exploit them.

This decision may be legally defensible, but it is ecologically indefensible.

These appalling decisions go to the very heart of why we are losing koalas. Not through a single catastrophic event, but through a thousand approvals, exemptions, offsets and compromises that gradually erode the habitat they need to survive.

The consequences of this decision will bring Redland koalas closer to extinction. Shame on this woman. All that impassioned indignation to defend an indefensible decision. She’ll be remembered for it.

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03/06/2026

Thank you First Dog On The Moon. You’re absolutely spot on.

Australia’s unique wildlife is being failed at every level. Weak federal environmental laws, loopholes created by state governments, and the influence of powerful private interests combine to leave species and their habitat with almost no meaningful protection.

Let’s not forget, koalas are endangered in this state.

Shame on Ormiston College.
Shame on you Jarrod Bleijie MP

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The school says it will plant 526 trees to replace the ones the koalas are already using

01/06/2026

The devastating reality about what’s happening to our native forests. Koalas are listed as endangered in Qld, NSW and Act. This listing doesn’t appear to make an ounce of difference to protecting them or other endangered wildlife.

This is all legal under current laws.

27/05/2026

Yes, how will you Minister Watt?

Landcare groups already volunteer their time weeding, putting plants in the ground. Now these initiatives are at risk.
The rhetoric about no more extinctions is baseless and unachievable with proposed budgets 😔

27/05/2026

The odds are already stacked against koalas in Australia.

New research from the University of Sydney found that when the 7-day average maximum temperature reaches 27°C or higher, koalas are **1.5 to 3.5 times more likely** to end up in wildlife hospitals or die.

The frightening part? Temperatures like this are no longer rare, they’re becoming the new normal.

Koalas are already listed as endangered in the two hottest states NSW and QLD. Without urgent action to protect their habitat and tackle climate impacts, koalas in these states could disappear very soon.

We already know the solution: protect and restore habitat to reduce climate stress and improve survival. It's quite simple.

If the federal government was serious about protecting endangered species, why do they continue to allow native vegetation logging and why do they continue approving projects that destroy koala habitat?

This government is NOT serious about saving endangered species. So, when you hear Murray Watt - Senator for Queensland our Minister of approvals, talk about how Labor is protecting endangered species, ask him, why is he not addressing the only things that will save them?

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.

24/05/2026

Labor is at it again. They are set to implement a new timber forest strategy developed by logging industry insiders and chaired by the CFMEU forestry division. No forestry ecologists or conservation groups have been consulted. This is an inside deal with Labor government and their industry mates. Most importantly, there has been no ecological impact assessment conducted.

What does this mean?

This strategy, if implemented, will lock in government support for native forest logging nationwide! This will be a disaster for Victorian koalas and other wildlife.

It will allow logging in national parks and nature reserves.

It will overturn current good policy that prevents native forest wood from being burned.

This will weaken current laws and bring 'The right to harvest" back to Victoria after Victoran's fought so hard to stop native forest logging.

We must stop this strategy going ahead if we are to protect the last remaining koala habitats in Victoria, and where they are already endangered.

PLEASE click on the shared post below, follow the prompts provided and contact your labor MP urgently. We only have until Monday to tell the government that this MUST NOT be implemented.

Thank you!

22/05/2026

A Victorian election is just around the corner and koalas need a stronger voice.

At Koala Alliance, we work every day to educate, advocate, and push for meaningful change for koalas and wildlife. But we also know many Australians still don’t fully understand what Victorian Koalas are facing, and how much is at stake.

That’s why we want to hear from you.

We’re asking our community, and your networks, to help us understand what will genuinely influence voters this November. Please share this post and join the conversation below.

What do you think will actually make people factor koalas into their vote?

• What messages would resonate most with voters?
• What actions or campaigns could change voting behaviour?
• How do we reach people across different ages, backgrounds, and political views?
• What are other advocacy groups getting right or wrong?
• If you were running this campaign, what would you do differently?

There are no wrong answers. Big ideas, small ideas, unconventional ideas, we want to hear them all. If we want koalas on voters’ minds in November, we need to make sure our messages hit home.

Please, post your answers to these questions in the chat below.