Koala Rescue Redlands & Surrounds INC

29/08/2026

🐨 WHY DO WE NEED LOCAL KOALA RESCUE?

Because koalas don't just live "out in the bush".

They live here.

⚠️In our backyards.
⚠️Along our roads.
⚠️In our parks.
⚠️Around our schools.
⚠️Near shopping centres.
⚠️In trees beside busy suburban streets.

Redlands Coast is home to one of Australia's urban koala populations.

And that means our koalas are sharing their neighbourhood with us.

🚗 Cars
🐕 Dogs
⚠️ Fences
🏊 Pools
🏗️ Construction
🚶 People

Sometimes they need help.

That's where we come in.

Koala Rescue Redlands & Surrounds Inc is local.
~Our volunteers live in and around the community we serve.
~When the phone rings, we know these roads.
~We know these suburbs.
~We know the challenges our local koalas face.

And we care deeply about what happens to them.

🎟 You can help keep that local response going by buying a $5 raffle ticket.

📲 Scan the QR code.

Your $5 could help keep a rescue team ready for the next call.



Image concept: Koala sitting in a gum tree with a subtle Redlands suburban background.

28/08/2026

🧐 MYTH BUSTING!

❌ MYTH: "If a koala is sitting in a tree, it's fine."

✅ FACT: Unfortunately, not always.

Koalas are incredibly good at hiding when they're sick or injured. A koala can look perfectly settled in a tree while actually being seriously unwell.

Things to watch for include:

🐨 Sitting low in a tree
🐨 Staying in the same spot for an unusually long time
🐨 Being on the ground during the day
🐨 Drinking from ground-level water
🐨 Poor body condition or visible wounds
🐨 Cloudy, swollen or crusted eyes
🐨 A dirty or wet bottom, which can be a sign of illness

And here's the important part — you don't have to be able to see or tell what's wrong.

If you're concerned about a koala, call us.

We have binoculars and cameras that help us get a much closer look from the ground without disturbing the koala.

📞 See something that doesn't look right? Give us a call.

We'd much rather check a healthy koala than miss one that desperately needs help. 💚

27/08/2026

What a great initiative!

Koalas on billboards! 🐨

We’ve had many reports about koalas in strange places, so seeing one on a billboard shouldn’t be that unusual.

However, in this instance, we’re really excited that for the next six weeks you’ll see a koala image on billboards around Brisbane’s southern suburbs!

It’s thanks to the generosity of a Holland Park West resident who works for goa Billboards (south-east Queensland’s biggest digital billboard company) and who saw a need to spread the word about koala safety. So proactive and thoughtful!

The “Keep our koalas safe. Slow down” message will appear on billboards for the next six weeks at the following locations:

📍Logan Road in Greenslopes (at the IGA)
📍1644 Logan Road in Mt Gravatt (at the Showgrounds)
📍Old Cleveland Road in Coorparoo (across from McDonalds).

Thank you so much for your generous contribution!

📝 To share your ideas, skills, talents or resources to keep our koalas safe, please get in touch via a direct Facebook message.

Also send a message if you’d like to join us! We’re a growing community group of volunteers who are working together to protect koalas in our area.

We need more volunteers to perform various roles from taking phone calls, to being the first on the scene to brief our rescuers, to helping with rescues. Training is provided.

What a fulfilling way to spend some free time … joining like-minded people to protect our koalas! It’s become super busy. We would love your help 💚

26/08/2026

🎉 WIN $15,000 AND HELP LOCAL KOALAS! 🐨

Our next Bayside Community Fund Community Raffle is officially underway, and this one is especially important to us.

Why?

Because when you buy your $5 ticket through Koala Rescue Redlands & Surrounds, you're not just entering a raffle.

You're helping a group of local volunteers be ready when a koala needs us.

When
🐨 A koala hit by a car.
🐨 A koala attacked by a dog.
🐨 A sick koala sitting at the bottom of a tree.
🐨 A joey that has suddenly found itself alone.
🐨 A koala trapped somewhere it shouldn't be.

Our volunteers don't clock off at 5pm.

They don't get paid.

They give up evenings, weekends, sleep and family time because they believe our local koalas deserve someone to come when they need help.

And that's where community support matters.

🎟 Tickets are just $5

🏆 $30,000 in prizes
🥇 $15,000
🥈 $3,000
🥉 $2,000
🏅 10 × $1,000

📅 Tickets close: 1 November 2026
🎉 Draw: 9 November 2026

📲 Scan Our QR code and choose Koala Rescue Redlands & Surrounds as your organisation.

Five dollars could win you $15,000.

But either way, you're backing local people who are out there helping local wildlife.

That's a pretty good $5. 💚

Community Bank Victoria Point
Bayside Community Fund

21/08/2026

🧐 MYTH BUSTING!

❌ MYTH: "Koalas are slow."

✅ FACT: Koalas may spend up to 20 hours a day resting, but don't let that fool you! When they need to move, they can run at speeds of up to 30 km/h, climb trees with incredible speed and travel long distances between habitat.

During breeding season, it's not unusual for koalas to cover several kilometres in search of mates or new territory.

Unfortunately, even at those speeds, they can't outrun vehicles or dogs.

🚗 Please slow down in koala areas.
🐕 Keep dogs securely contained, especially at night.

Sleeping doesn't make them slow—it just means they save their energy for when they need it most. 💚

17/08/2026

Another koala lost on our roads. 💔

And once again, a fauna barrier that simply wasn’t effective.

We can’t keep accepting this as the cost of living alongside wildlife. We have to do better.

Better planning. Better fencing. Better crossings. Better protection for the wildlife sharing our roads.

Every koala lost is one too many.

15/08/2026

🚨 URGENT — MISSING KOALA JOEY 🚨

We received a report of a koala near 101 Birkdale Road, a very busy main road. When we arrived, we found mum still sitting in the tree pictured.

We discovered she has a large, lactating teat — but no joey. 💔

This strongly suggests her joey may have become separated from her somewhere within the circled area shown in the photo.

🐨 PLEASE CHECK YOUR YARD

If you live nearby, please check:
• Your yard and surrounding gardens
• Trees, especially dense foliage and lower branches
• Under trees and around vegetation

LISTEN carefully for YIPs. A joey will often make a distinctive “yip” sound when calling for mum.

🚨 This is urgent. The sooner we locate the joey, the better the chance of safely reuniting them.

Mum has been named Zoe and is now heading to the RSPCA Wildlife Hospital for a health check.

We have already started searching the area with our thermal drone but unfortunately haven't located the joey yet. We will keep searching, but we desperately need the local community to help us.

📍 If you live anywhere near 101 Birkdale Road Birkdale, please share this post and tell your neighbours.

If you hear or see a joey, please don't approach or attempt to move it. Contact Koala Rescue Redlands & Surrounds immediately on 0435 504 222.

🙏 Please share. One person seeing this post could be the person who finds Zoe's baby.