Ormiston Koala Group

31/10/2026

Sharing related groups if you haven't yet joined:

Protest information group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1400372061285521

Private Community group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19qsUgzAQu/

25/10/2026

Come and support the local ACF group behind many of the campaigns here in the redlands fighting for our animals and nature

Save Scott Reef - watch Corals’ Last Stand!

📅 Saturday 31 October
🕑 4:30pm Barefoot Bowls | 6:00pm Film Screening
📍 Victoria Point Bowls and Recreation Club

Scott Reef is a vibrant coral reef off the coast of Western Australia, as precious as our own Great Barrier Reef. It is home to a diverse array of sea creatures, including green turtles, sea snakes and migrating pygmy blue whales. Yet Woodside wants to drill for gas in its waters.

In this award-winning documentary, follow author Tim Winton and musician John Butler as they travel to Scott Reef to draw the world’s attention to the impacts gas drilling could have on this unique marine ecosystem.

Come along to this powerful 30-minute screening, connect with like-minded people and learn how you can help protect Scott Reef and our precious marine life.

For a bit of fun, arrive early and enjoy a game of barefoot bowls before the film!

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 This is a family-friendly event.
🎟️ Free tickets available now - link in the comments.

24/10/2026

Sharing Leaf's tracked home range recently posted by KAG. Koalas live in these grounds, no matter what some people say. If this destruction is allowed to happen to the home-range of a council-tracked koala, what hope do the rest of them have? It's time to start critically thinking about whether habitat loss, the leading cause of death in koalas, is taken seriously by our decision-makers. What mechanisms are actually in place by local and state governments to protect endangered animals from losing critical resources? Which initiatives are scientifically proven to conserve a species and and which are simply tokenism and green-washing.

24/10/2026

"KAG sought a reasonable compromise that would allow the College to expand while reducing the destruction of mature koala habitat."

"Most of the reported complaints remain unresolved, whilst the State Government and Redland City Council continue to dispute who is responsible for overseeing and enforcing compliance.
Who is responsible for ensuring environmental conditions are adhered to?
The community deserves a clear answer, proper investigation and transparent accountability."

Important information from KAG, read the full thing below:

24/10/2026

How ironic to use the very wildlife they're destroying as an emblem. Read the below post on how to help and ask for hollow-replacements for the animals that lost their habitat in Victoria Park

Brisbane 2032 has unveiled an Olympic emblem celebrating nature, with a beautiful cockatoo at its centre.

It is a lovely image, if you ignore what is happening on the ground at Victoria Park Barrambin. Huge hollow-bearing trees, (including the pre-colonial Henry and Albert) were cleared in early August.

These weren't just trees. They were homes for wildlife, including cockatoos.

Cockatoos can live for around 40 years and rely on tree hollows for nesting. They generally nest between May and September and return to the same hollows year after year.

When trees were cleared in August, young birds would have been displaced and precious nesting habitat lost.

And when the next breeding season comes, those birds can't simply find another hollow waiting for them.

And that makes the cockatoo on the logo particularly hard to swallow.

WHAT CAN WE DO?
Please take a few minutes to contact Brisbane 2032 and tell them what is happening at Victoria Park Barrambin.

Email: [email protected]
Tell them that huge hollow-bearing trees have been cleared at Barrambin, that the park was habitat for Sulphur-crested Cockatoos and that GIICA has not provided replacement hollows anywhere near the park.

And if you would like to join actions like the recent Codie pop-up, please go to the Save Victoria Park volunteer webpage - see comments - or join one of the affiliated groups like Save Vic Park Barrambin Action Hub.

There are lots of ways to get involved and every person who turns up helps keep the pressure on.

20/10/2026

"The Mineral Resources and Other Legislation Amendment Bill stops community groups from participating in decision-making about mining projects."

20/10/2026

While confronting the accelerating destruction of nature can feel daunting, Bob is an optimist. He views this mindset, coupled with defiance, as important to propagate change.
 
“Public awareness is growing and it’ll only take a small number of people to make a seminal stand. The rest will follow through. And as Margaret Mead said, don’t believe that a small number of people can’t change the world. In fact nothing else ever did,” — Bob Brown.

20/10/2026

AUSTRALIA - A WILDLIFE GRAVEYARD

AUSTRALIA - A WILDLIFE GRAVEYARD

There’s no let-up in the ongoing catastrophic deliberate destruction of wildlife habitats and our precious irreplaceable koalas, kangaroos, flying foxes, the list is endless. Every day somewhere in this ancient vast land the food and shelter on which our wildlife survives is destroyed.

And still, in spite of massive public protest, nothing changes. Governments keep ignoring the deep public concern as we watch the Albanese Labor government continue to approve highly destructive projects in critical habitat.

Look no further than the Woogaroo Forest in Ipswich Queensland. Environment Minister Murray Watt has approved a massive urbanisation project which will spell the extinction of countless animals including koalas.

Or check out Ormiston College in Redlands where important koala habitat is being knocked down to build school facilities, leaving koalas and their joeys homeless. With no alternative habitat.

The road toll in Queensland is appalling, wiping out koalas every day. Same thing in Appin, in south west Sydney where massive urbanisation projects and infrastructure kill koalas day after day, knocking them senseless on roads, leaving desperately injured koalas to die a slow painful death.

Then there’s all the other destroyed or soon to be destroyed habitats. It’s shocking to learn of mass starvation in flying foxes – a real catastrophe as these are the creatures that pollinate our forests. No bats, no pollination, no forests, no wildlife.

Kangaroos shot when their homes are in conflict with golf courses, reserves, houses, or anywhere some authority things there’s too many roos. Or their corridors and territory is cut off with fencing ensuring terrible injuries as the roos try to clear the new and unknown hazards to their territory.

The Minns government in NSW has put out yet another draft strategy for koalas. More crap, more repeat of the same old stuff. Paper policies that don’t mean a thing and are utterly devoid of any shred of protection. Koala Crisis has lost count of the number of strategies, workshops, research grants, policies, all without meaning. Just more and more paper.

Right now NSW native forests are up for grabs. Don’t hold your breath for a good outcome because mainstream media avoids any mention of the environmental crises in Australia -we are leading the world in extinctions- but that’s not news these days.

There is no one to hold these corrupt governments to account except us. And most people are overwhelmed with financial problems, relationship issues, struggling to keep sane in a disintegrating world.

Don’t lose faith. We have a sacred obligation to protect the non- humans. This is our journey.