What do I need to do if I see a Koala in the Southern New England Landcare region? 

See what our members have been sending to the team at the Northern Tablelands Koala Partnership Program, in the past couple of months. A plethora of Koalas.

Image: This health, loud male koala was snapped in New England Stringybark habitat, along Kareela Road, Invergowrie in early November, by our intrepid Koala Conservation Officer, Des Andersen and his partner, Heidi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We encourage all our Members and friends to please report Koala Sightings using the ispy app or reporting directly to Armidale Regiona Council (if you are within the ARC area) or Landcare (if you are outside ARC). Once we know where they live and where they travel, we can begin to protect our koalas and their habitat.

For Armidale koalas spotted, please complete and submit your sighting here on the ARC online sightings register or download the I Spy Koala app from the App Store or Google Play. For anyone outside the Armidale LGA, please email us and we will advise our Koala staff.
Images below: Kareela Rd male koala supplied by Des Andersen and Heidi Kolkert.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also seen in October and caught live on camera was this fellow on the property, Blackbutt. View the video link via our Facebook page. New landholder, Pat Neve, purchased the property, Blackbutt through the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust’s revolving fund in April this year. Since then, Pat has been keen to get to know the biodiversity on the property and we were all excited to hear that he has discovered a koala on the land! He was able to confirm this with the use of a remote camera and a recording device.

We have been very lucky to have two recent sightings by our diligent Landcare members. Jill Middleton, spotted this sprightly koala out along Kingstown Rd. Two images below supplied by: J Middleton.

She said, "So good to see live and active members of the species!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Another reported by Jeff Strudwick, in the Kingstown district, was this lovely mother and joey . Jeff mentioned a local woodcutter had sighted a bull koala about a kilometre from this site, around the same time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


If you are uing the Koala app "iSpy", it will simultaneously log sightings on BioNet, the program used by our Koala team.