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.
Have a look into the work of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. Their modus operandi is to buy a big plot of land, clear out the feral animals in it and then reintroduce the native species that used to be there. Sometimes if practical, they’ll fence the property to keep feral animals out and native animals unmolested. They’ve made amazing progress over the past 20 years or so.
Their Koala page says they’re protecting Koalas at three of their sanctuaries. You can even visit them. I have been to five of their sanctuaries - all of them were vastly different, protecting different habitats.
Oh wow! They have loads more sanctuaries than they used to have!
Oh, this is good to know as I’m going to be looking for information like this since I’m concerned about koala welfare and the conservation of koalas.