THE KOALA IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL, KNOWN GLOBALLY, MUCH LOVED AND FACING A CRISIS
We’ve already lost 1/2 our east coast koalas in the last 20 years…
That’s sobering statistic – isn’t it?
The biggest threat?
When a koala loses it’s home, it has nowhere to go.
Huge swaths of precious koala habitat is destroyed in New South Wales every year, resulting in koalas either being killed or displaced.
Then add in bushfires like the catastrophic event in 2019 to 2020, worsening droughts, heatwavess and extreme and escalating bushfires and our koalas are in serious trouble.
And that’s not all, koalas also face being attached by dogs and being hit by cars and trucks, the disease Chlamydia.
We need to raise awareness among landholders, developers and regulators – demanding that they not kill koalas and destroy their homes.
THERE IS HOPE
You may recall that we recently found koalas on our Fig Tree Reserve.
The Fig Tree Reserve burned during the Black Summer Bushfires of 2019 to 2020 and we thought the koala colony perished – so you can imagine our excitement when we realized that the Fig Tree Reserve is once again – or still – home to endangered koalas.
In addition, Save Our Woodlands currently has four properties — a total of 760 hectares (1820 acres) — known as the Koala Project.
We are working towards fully funding all four projects and making improvements to each.
For example, some are already fully fenced with wildlife-friendly fencing that keeps cattle and sheep from grazing and destroying precious habitats and we have other projects that need fencing. (We’re currently fundraising and need help to purchase over 4 KM of wildlife-friendly fencing.)
In addition, we are seeking donations to provide koala watering stations on at least 2 of our “Reserves/Projects”.
Watering stations provide water not only for endangered koalas but for a wide variety of wildlife during times of droughts like we are experiencing right now.
But we need your help to purchase materials to build watering stations.
We have volunteers standing by to provide free “manpower” but funding is desperately needed.
Please consider a donation – every dollar will be put to immediate use.
YOU CAN HELP US BUILD IN TREE WATER STATIONS
Koalas normally gain the majority of the water they need from the moisture in the leaves that they eat. However, when weather conditions are hot and dry, such as during heatwaves and droughts, koalas may benefit from supplemented free water.
Water stations will attract a variety of different species both during the day and night, including birds, bees and other native animals like gliders and possums.
Save Our Woodlands is an environmentally conscious group of volunteers dedicated to preserving threatened birds, animals and ecosystems in the woodlands of New South Wales, Australia.
Only 15% of our woodlands remain, the rest has been cleared for agriculture.
Save Our Woodlands Inc. secures and protects woodlands in NSW and pays landholders, in perpetuity, to conserve, enhance and re-establish native woodlands on THEIR land, and to manage these woodlands, so they are maintained.
BUT we need YOUR help. Together we can bring about change. Please consider donating.
People tend to think that woodlands are “just bush,” consequently, over 85% of the native woodlands in New South Wales, Australia have been replaced by agriculture.
Donate $10 per month & help protect critical habitats. By doing so YOU will prevent further species from extinction.
Our work is only possible with your support.
BUT THERE IS HOPE
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