Friends of the Koala is a non-profit community group run by volunteers dedicated to conserving koalas in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales.

Volunteer rehabilitators operate a 24 hour rescue service for sick, injured and orphaned koalas. Koalas are cared for in home care or at the Koala Care Centre on Rifle Range Rd, Lismore, NSW. Critically ill koalas are transferred to the Australian Wildlife Hospital in Beerwah, QLD.

A native plant nursery is attached to the Care Centre providing koala food trees for free to local landholders. The proceeds from other native plant sales go towards the cost of koala care.

Friends of the Koala plays an active role in promoting habitat restoration in the Northern Rivers Region. This includes encouraging landholders to commit to new plantings and maintaining and looking after remnant vegetation.

The group supports research, in particular in the prevalence of disease in koala populations and in mapping current koala populations and their distribution.

There are lots of way that you can help FOK continue its ongoing care of koalas.

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Basic Training Day

Submitted by fok on Mon, 2012-01-09 09:04.
2012-02-11 09:30
2012-02-11 12:30

Basic Training
Includes rescue techniques, basic koala assessment & handling, transportation,
koala food collection and tree identification and the care of koalas in the
Friends of the Koala Care Centre.

When:

Saturday 11 February 2012
9.30am—12.30pm

Where:

Room Z181
Southern Cross University
(Off Rifle Range Road)

Cost:
$5 covers morning tea

Bookings:

Lismore’s Koalas Need Your Urgent Help Now

Submitted by fok on Sat, 2012-01-07 20:38.

Lismore Council’s Draft Comprehensive Koala Plan of Management for South-East Lismore (CKPoM) is now on public display until COB 3 February 20

Nomination of the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) for ‘vulnerable to extinction’ listing

Submitted by fok on Sat, 2012-01-07 20:34.

Federal Environment Minister Burke will announce whether he will add Koala to the list of nationally threatened species on 17 February 2012, a mere six weeks away.

Friends of the Koala Annual General Meeting & Dinner

Submitted by fok on Sun, 2011-10-02 13:56.
2011-10-13 17:30

Friends of the Koala Annual
General Meeting & Dinner,
5.30pm for 6pm, Invercauld House,
Goonellebah

Report of the Senate Inquiry into Koalas Released

Submitted by fok on Sun, 2011-10-02 13:51.

The Report of the Senate Inquiry into Koalas, The koala – saving our national icon, was finally tabled in Federal Parliament on 22 September.

Fundraising Concert

Submitted by fok on Sat, 2011-05-14 16:59.

Fundraising Concert

Basic Training Day April 2011

Submitted by fok on Sat, 2011-04-02 14:39.

Basic Training

Includes rescue techniques, basic koala assessment & handling, transportation, koala food collection and tree identification and the care of koalas in the Friends of the Koala Care Centre.

9 April 2011
9.00 for 9.30a.m. -- 1.00p.m.
Room Z181, Southern Cross University
Rifle Range Road
$5 covers morning tea  

Bookings essential
Phone: 6622 1233
Email: info@friendsofthekoala.org

Koala Carers Region's Top Volunteer Team

Submitted by fok on Sun, 2011-01-09 16:11.

Koala Carers Region’s Top Volunteer Team

We are a nation of volunteers. More than 5.2million Australians volunteer, a little fewer than half of them in NSW. We have a Minister for Volunteering and a peak body, The Centre for Volunteering.

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