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.
I say make a koala community somewhere and post all your pics of koalas as well as news on them. My feed could definitely use more cute koala pictures, that’s for sure.
ABC News are one of the better sources for news on koala conservation.
The Guardian is ok too.
Sometimes I see things in The Conversation too from researchers. Also, look at that happy “aw yisssss, tasty leaves” little face in the lead image of this one. Adorable.
Yeah, I figured that having a “happy “aw yisssss, tasty leaves” little face in the lead image of this discussion” would look good here.
Might be able to make a sticky post on Aussieenviro for Koala discussion?
I’m not sure how to make this or another post a sticky post here for koala discussion, as I would need a moderator to do that.
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Right now, I’m just waiting to see what they have to say about this here since they did suggest that the discussion come here when they said “The Aussie Environment and Australia communities are probably the best placed to get started on koalas. I wouldn’t suggest making a new community yet until you need to, there are a lot of unused ones due to the lack of users. Koalas suit the theme of [email protected]”
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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.
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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.
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And should include stop clearcutting eucalyptus forests.
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.
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