Greetings, I have discovered this Australian community while I was looking for any discussions on what is going on in regards to conserving koala habitat in the Land Down Under. I haven’t decided yet on whether or not I should go ahead and create my own koala community on here as I recently have came here from Reddit.

Anyway, I’m a lover of koalas and had dressed my Reddit avatar in a koala costume around Halloween a few years ago. That is where I had gotten the idea of my nickname being Konala. Since Reddit is going bad due to the jacking up the API price and subreddits over there either had gone private or shuttered their doors, I ended up making the deciding to check out Lemmy instead since it seemed like Reddit, but is federated instead of being controlled by a greedy entity.

Right now, I’m just hoping that this community may be in the right direction for me to find any discussions on here about what is going on in regards to preserving eucalyptus forests. I have been hearing random things about what has been happening on Australia and I tend to worry about the koalas food supply of eucalyptus leaves. I did hear stuff about a koala whisperer girl and a koala ark in terms of koala conservation efforts, but would be interested in finding and hearing more on that kind of stuff since I’m a koala lover.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺MEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Hi.

    You want a separate stickied thread just about koalas or would you like to just add content about koalas on the regular?

    You may note that Aussie.zone has daily threads with a hit or miss usage so if you wanted to just make threads per week/fortnightly we could see how much activity they have.

    If you wanted to put together a thread with koala resources/rescue groups etc, we could pin that somewhere. If you have resources, I would add it to my sticky for news which is where I get most content and that needs new links if hood media sites are available.

    If this wasn’t suitable, you could try Lodion or Nath later on. I’m just not sure there is enough activity for separate communities yet.

    • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      Well, I was thinking that it may turn into a thread with content about koalas, though I’m going to have to start working on putting something together here that contains some resources I can find on koala conservation, any rescue groups, since it sounds like there are some whose feed could definitely use more cute koala pictures and stuff.

      • Treevan 🇦🇺MEnglish
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        9 months ago

        https://aussie.zone/post/228212

        Under the Conservation subheading here, we could add more links to koala groups if they have media releases. Some of the existing ones may have older koala news (some of it will be posted in here) and that may be a good place to start. Some of the government links may also have koala related info.

        The Uni links surprisingly have a solid amount of news in there, there will be koala studies done by Unis as well to find.

      • Treevan 🇦🇺MEnglish
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        9 months ago

        If you are going to make it pic heavy, could you create a Koala community on Lemmy.world and cross post koala news to here?

        If it’s like a pictorial and you can keep the content up to it, a separate community might be cool and then just crosspost some quality stuff into here.

        • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldOP
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          9 months ago

          Well, I will try not to make it too pic heavy and let you decide if it can be in the Aussie Environment community or if its going to need to be going in its own community.

          • Treevan 🇦🇺MEnglish
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            9 months ago

            When I first suggested this a couple of weeks ago, you were brand new to lemmy and I just showed that this community had the most hits for koalas.

            What you are suggesting, like cat pics or dog pics, is probably better suited to its own community because people that want to see cute pics of “koalas only” will hate the way I post into this community in gluts of articles of completely unrelated topics to koalas.

            It’s up to you how you want to approach it.

            • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldOP
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              9 months ago

              Uh, I don’t remember suggesting that I would be using cat or dog pics, as I was referring to koala pics.

              • Treevan 🇦🇺MEnglish
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                9 months ago

                I meant the purpose of the community therefore something like !catpics, !dogpics, !cuteanimals, !koalas instead of !environment.

                If the posting is very niche, it’s best for its own community. If it’s news about koalas with the pics every now and again, then here is the place…until it isn’t.

                Basically, if you want to build a niche community about koalas, best to do it in its own space. If you want to talk Australian environment with koalas and other animals, then here is good.