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KOALAS TO BE PROTECTED: DEBORAH TABART

30th April 2012

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News Source: ABC News, May 25, 2010
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By: Jennie Curtin
News Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, March 22, 2010
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By: Tanalee Smith
News Source: Associated Press, September 30 2009
The koala, Australia's star symbol, is dying of stress. Koalas live in the rolling hills and flat planes where eucalypt trees grow, because they need the leaves for both food and water ... click for full details

By: Darren Cartwright
News Source: The Australian, September 25 2009
Conservationists have delivered five dead koalas to Queensland's Parliament House, saying the marsupials are on the brink of extinction in urban Australia ... click for full details

By: Leah Fineran
News Source: Gold Coast Bulletin, September 2 2009
They are cute, sometimes cuddly and they are dying by the thousands. Take a good look because this may be the only way future generations get a glimpse of these furry Aussie icons ... click for full details

News Source: Brisbane Times, August 9 2009
The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) has embroiled the Queensland Government in yet another allegation of impropriety concerning the use of consultants ... click for full details

By: Tony Moore
News Source: Brisbane Times, July 23 2009
Conservationists have warned Premier Anna Bligh she will be held accountable for the impending eradication of South-East Queensland's urban koala population ... click for full details

By: Kate Dennehy
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald, June 1 2009
Koalas in Queensland are headed for extinction because of the State and Federal Government's inaction, wildlife groups say... click for full details

News Source: Courier Mail, May 29 2009
If listed under federal laws, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act will kick in, forcing anyone clearing land in koala habitat to ensure it does not affect the animal's prospects for survival... click for full details

By: Brian Williams
News Source: Courier Mail, April 27 2009
The Queensland Government faces charges of hypocrisy after it cleared prime eucalypt along Redland City in Southeast Queensland's Koala Coast...click for full details

By: Lauren Jarvis
News Source: National Geographic Kids http://ngkids.co.uk, April 8 2009
A tiny baby koala walks slowly along a lonely road in Victoria, Australia, calling for his mother. Behind him, the trees in the national park he once called home are burning...click for full details

By: Ben Cubby
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald, February 10 2009
The nation's most deadly fires have left scars on Victoria's bushland and native animal populations that will last for the rest of the century...click for full details

Conservationists will pressure the federal environment minister to urgently declare south-east Queensland's koala population critically endangered...click for full details

By Geoff Chambers
News Source: GoldCoast.com.au, December 3 2008
A koala rescue operation could cost ratepayers and developers up to $20 million to save 100 of the iconic animals....click for full details

By Marian Wilkinson
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald, November 22 2008
Koalas, already listed as vulnerable, are likely to die in greater numbers as they adapt to climate change, which will bring more intense bushfires, rising temperatures, increased drought and a drop in the nutritional levels of their food...click for full details

News Source: The Noosa Journal, October 30 2008
Noosa's koala population will be extinct by 2010. That is the dire prediction from some of the state's leading koala experts who say there are fewer than 15 koalas left in Noosa Shire...click for full details

By Ben Cubby
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald, October 28 2008
Bulldozers rolled in to some of the last remaining koala habitats on the South Coast yesterday, marking the start of what police fear could be a divisive logging operation...click for full details

By Reshni Ratnam
News Source: Westside News, October 15 2008
Kenmore's koala population may be destroyed if the Kenmore Bypass is built...click for full details

News Source: Burnie Advocate, September 27 2008
Ms Tabart said that while the koala was on the priority list for species conservation, there was a two year evaluation time and, she warned, 4000 animals could die in Southeast Queensland alone before action was taken...click for full details

News Source: MX Brisbane, September 26 2008
A great example of Australian Koala Foundation sponsorship opportunities! "Over the next five weeks, Hudsons Coffee will donate $1 to the Australian Koala Foundation for every creamy caramel coffee sold...click for full details

By Rosslyn Beeby
News Source: The Canberra Times, September 16 2008
In the past five years, more than 25, 000 koalas have died inQueensland. Breakdown that figure with a series of divisions, and that's a mortality rate of 5000 a year, just over 400 a month and more than 100 animals a week...click for full details

News Source: The West Australian, August 27 2008
A special Queensland taskforce set up to conserve koala populations will only produce bandaid solutions, a member of the taskforce says ...click for full details

By Glenis Green
News Source: Courier Mail, July 5-6 2008
After years of conservationists sounding warning about the threats from urban pressures, a leading researcher has now said bluntly that koalas could soon be just a memory...click for full details