
Koala Woman Says
This population is under immense pressure from the expansion of the Gold Coast. With the huge Pimpama development, the Queensland Government has set a shocking precedent – a first for Queensland – of removing koalas from development sites to other areas and we know this has bad outcomes for Koalas, with a 20% survival rate on average. With the precedent set they want to do it in other places. And guess what? Now you don’t have to find offsets or suitable habitat, developers can pay to do research instead. How heartbreaking it must be for these researchers to gradually, inexorably watch the demise of “their” Koalas.
There are Koalas at Parkwood, Helensvale and Coombabah, and a few left at East Coomera, but sightings have dropped in the last 10 years. So, with the Pimpana Koalas removed, we may as well say that Koalas are getting closer and closer to extinction in yet another southeast Queensland electorate.
Member for Fadden
Mr Cameron Caldwell
Liberal Party of Australia
Cameron.Caldwell.MP@aph.gov.au
PO Box 733 Biggera Waters
QLD 4216
Will he Act or Axe?


Koala Numbers
Estimated AKF Koala Population: 200-300
Estimated Koala Habitat left: 14.3%
Estimated Federal Government Population: No data. No opinion.
Listed as endangered under the EPBC Act (Feb 2022)