Koalas rescued from the Tasmanian Blue Gum Plantations on Kangaroos Island are safe and happy at Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary.
The Team at Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary has announced koalas rescued from the Eucalypt plantations on Kangaroo Island are bountifully breeding. The Sanctuary bred five koala joeys this year and they are just starting to emerge from their mother’s pouches.
It is a remarkable achievement, given the alternative, which so many people witnessed through news publications in March 2024.
Owner of Warrawong, David Cobbold said the private insurance population of koalas shows what timely intervention can achieve.
“It’s an honour to be in a position to help Australia’s most iconic animal. Whether land clearing, cars, or feral animals, Australian animals are under threat. It really doesn’t take much to make a positive contribution,” David Cobbold said.
This morning in an ARN Radio interview with Jennie Lenman he shared his thoughts about the shift for Aussie tourist destinations to stop the practice of koala cuddling.
“The evolution of the zeitgeist, the mood of the people, is that they don’t want to see that anymore. What they want to see are animals in natural environments, so Dr [John] Wamsley was well ahead of the curve with Warrawong in creating that,” David Cobbold told Jennie Lenman.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane is the latest to change practices, recently issuing a statement confirming that, from the start of this month, guests will no longer be able to hold the koalas, in a bid to “address increasing public demand” for “more immersive and educational experiences”.
