Koala Woman Says

 In this electorate the western limit for Koalas was Hughenden, but the only recent records are from Pentland and Campaspe, half-way to Charters Towers. There were Koalas in Undara National Park 20 years ago, but these seem to have disappeared into the lava tubes this Park is famous for. Seriously though, as in the Maranoa electorate to the south Koalas are contracting their range coastward as the climate gets drier and hotter. South of Mareeba on the Atherton Tableland there might be a few around Malanda and west of Cardwell in the western fringes of Girringun National Park. There don’t appear to be any left around Charters Towers; there is a recorded sighting from 2001.

There seems to be a lot of bush on this map, but it contains mostly scattered eucalypts, hence the low estimate for the koala population. The coastal portion of this electorate is the Wet Tropics Bioregion, there are no Koalas living in this rainforest.

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