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I’m not a golfer, but planting and looking after

I’m not a golfer, but planting and looking after trees for wildlife at @Arundel Hills Country Club lets me and all the volunteers who have donated their time to get our wildlife fix.

I pinch myself sometimes thinking how lucky we are to have such incredibly unique wildlife living on our doorstep and what a privilege and honour we have to take care of our fellow residents.

Unlike koalas which are difficult to spot, the resident kangaroos 🦘🦘🦘 roam around the golf course. Seeing the big males metres away laying in the shade while we’re tending to our trees and the mums with their little joeys grazing always brings a big smile to our faces.

As a caring community we have a responsibility to look after all of our residents including those most vulnerable, our precious wildlife.

🦘🌳🌿🐨🌿🌸⛳️🌳🌼

#wildlifefix #koalasonthegreen #golfforwildlife #kangaroos #golfkangaroos #arundelhillscountryclub

Was out and about at Arundel Hills Country Club th

Was out and about at Arundel Hills Country Club this afternoon doing some maintenance on the koala food trees and I spotted what I thought was Charles the koala boy! 🐨 🐨

Well, I didn’t spot him at first, but actually heard him. While I was tending some trees close to where he was in the tree above he let out a deep bellow and I thought, hey, that’s a koala.

I saw him and I immediately was hoping it would be Charles. Charles was the koala that inspired Koalas On The Green. He was released over a year ago after, as Wildcare Australia Inc. volunteer rescuers we rescued him from a surrounding residential area. He could hardly see as he had clamydial conjunctivitis and was wandering the streets. After 2 months in treatment at Australia Zoo he was ready to be released. The amazing staff at AZ really took great care nursing him back to health and they had got attached to this relaxed old boy and were sad to see him go.

The dilemma at the time was where to release him close to his range as being an old boy he wouldn’t cope with change if moved far away. We released him at the golf course and that is what sparked the realisation of just how important golf courses are for our suburban wildlife.

The goal of the Koalas On The Green pilot project has been to increase food sources and habitat for resident koalas including Charles, and provide greater connectivity for wildlife to travel safely avoiding the complex and dangerous urban matrix of roads, cars, dogs and fences.

Though before he was released, he was tagged to identify him in the future. There didn’t appear to be any tag, so it must be Charles’ doppelgänger! Wonderful to see another male koala hanging out at the golf club.

#koalasonthegreen #arundelhillscountryclub #goldcoastkoalas #naturelovers #ilovekoalas

A huge thank you to the legendary Bonnibel Yee. T

A huge thank you to the legendary Bonnibel Yee.

The trees in the first stage of the Koala Supermarket at NCPP are doing amazing!

This is in no small part due to the contribution of Bonni for her regular watering of the trees. 🙏😊💚

Her dedication has been truly incredible! It is such a big job and Bonni has spent many hours tending to the trees watering them with and it shows in the result of the trees development to date.

We are looking forward to irrigation to be installed in 2-3 weeks time which will remove all the time and effort of hand-watering.

Wildcare Australia Inc. carers will hopefully be able to harvest browse in no time if the trees keep going this way! Such an exciting initiative for volunteer wildlife carers thanks to the generosity and support of @Country Paradise Parklands, @Landcare Australia and @Watergum.

🐨🌳🌿🐨🌳🐨

#koalasupermarket #watergumcommunity #nerangcountryparadiseparklands #landcareaustralia #wildcareaustralia #koalasonthegreen #goldcoastkoalas

Michelle Ward and her husband Peter, are original

Michelle Ward and her husband Peter, are original residents of the River Downs Estate in Helensvale. They are shining examples of how we can protect and care for our resident wildlife who share our homes.

The position of their property, near the entrance to the estate, in my mind makes them the gatekeepers, which is quite interesting, when we think about their surname.

Having visited the couple a number of times to drop off koala-food trees for them to plant on their property, I have had the pleasure to get to know them and soak up their energy and passion for resident wildlife. Their property is home to an abundance of wildlife including koalas, water dragons, the occasional kangaroo, and numerous bird species.

Often we think of the word ‘warden’ in a negative sense, such as a prison warden that keeps watch of over prisons. Yet when we think of the role of wildlife wardens, or rangers, as we more commonly refer to them in Australia, their roles is to protect and care for wildlife.

The word ‘warden’ can mean to watch or guard, and over the years Michelle has seen the suburb slowly change as more trees and habitat had been cleared. Noticeable has been the decline in kangaroo and wallaby populations.

Part of being a wildlife warden is to simply observe.

Michelle had for many years also recorded the koala population in the area keeping detailed accounts.

On one of the visits to her place, Melody Barnao were privileged to see a koala high up in a tree. Another time we missed out on seeing a big male that was making quite a din the night before.

Michelle and Peter have created a haven for wildlife where creatures can feel safe and protected. Being a good wildlife guardian, protector or warden begins at home through conscious decisions and actions we take.
We all have the opportunity in little ways to help our struggling wildlife and become better custodians of the land.
Wildlife conservation really begins at home and Michelle and Peter are living proof of what many of us can do to protect and care for our unique precious wildlife.
#riverdownskoalas #koalaconnectors #koalasonthegreen #goldcoastkoalas

As we wrapped up our last Possum Pantry group plan

As we wrapped up our last Possum Pantry group planting event at @KDV Sport for the year, the wheels are still turning in the background.

We’ve been working closely with Andrew Glen, the Grounds Maintenance Manager over the last few months. We are excited to announce, with the generous support of KDV Sport, a sizeable area that we had planned for a mini koala food tree planting 🐨🌳 next year will be planted this week. It will add to our growing vision of micro or pocket-pantries throughout the Gold Coast to feed sick, injured and orphaned native wildlife in care 🐨🌸🐹🌿🌱

Having multiple small sites dotted around the Gold Coast is important not only for wildlife volunteer’s convenience and safety, but will ensure that with the changing climatic conditions, having satellite plantings will provide food security. If food plant species in one pantry aren’t producing healthy or quality leaf, blossoms or fruit then there are alternative sites available.

It’s a matter of hedging our bet, or not putting all one’s plants in one basket (excuse the puns).

We are so blown away by the incredible support we have had from KDV Sport and so grateful for their generosity, in helping to create this vital facility.

#kdvsport #thepossumpantry #koalamart #wildlifepocketpantries #koalasonthegreen

After Sunday’s Possum Pantry group planting even

After Sunday’s Possum Pantry group planting event at @KDV Sport, Deborah showed me a book, called The 99th Koala, she has finished reading. She said she couldn’t put it down as each page brought out so many emotions.

Here’s a description from the publisher’s website:

In last summer’s devastating fires, Kangaroo Island lost half of its koala population, with many more left injured and starving. This is the inspiring and sometimes confronting story of someone who went to help and ended up a koala dad.

When Kailas Wild – arborist by trade and conservationist at heart – heard that there were injured koalas on Kangaroo Island who could only be reached by a tree climber, he drove 1500 kms to volunteer.

Seven weeks later, he had crowd-funded sixty-five thousand dollars, participated in the rescue of over 100 koalas and had formed a special bond with a baby koala – Joey Kai. His social media postings gained tens of thousands of views and press attention around Australia and overseas, including the BBC, The Times (London), The New York Times and The Daily Mail.

The 99th Koala shares that experience, in words and pictures, and introduces us to some of the koalas of Kangaroo Island. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hopeful, Kai’s story above all commemorates our unique wildlife, and demonstrates the power of one person trying to make a difference.

Available online and all good bookstores.

Thank you for sharing Deborah. 🙏🐨

#the99thkoala #kangarooislandkoalaandwildliferescuecentre #koalasonthegreen #kangarooislandkoalas

There is something magical that happens when we ha

There is something magical that happens when we have a vision, inspire others to be part of it and work with nature to fulfill it.

Koalas On The Green was born out of the need to provide food sources, habitat and safe wildlife corridors for our disappearing suburban koalas on the Gold Coast. We released a koala last year in Arundel Hills Country Club and came to the realisation of just how important golf courses are for wildlife conservation in urban areas.

We began work last November planting trees for koalas and some of the trees are about 2 metres tall.

There is something truly special to be working on a golf course surrounded by kangaroos and many species of birds knowing that our community’s actions is helping to change the future of koalas in this area.

A big thank you to @arundelhillscountryclub for their support of this community project.

#koalasonthegreen #koala #arundelhillscountryclub #helpingourkoalas #goldcoastkoalas

Thank you @Rosalinde Brinkman for the amazing gift

Thank you @Rosalinde Brinkman for the amazing gift, the book Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe.

From the start, Koalas On The Green’s mission has been to ‘creatively connect community with biodiversity’ and this often means taking different perspectives to connect available resources to come up with new solutions to problems.

Rosalinde thank you from your support and encouragement. This book continues in broadening my perspectives and interest in indigenous culture. I couldn’t put it down from the start.

Bruce Pascoe writes, “that Aboriginal people did build houses, did build dams, did sow, irrigate and till the land, did alter the course of rivers, did sew their clothes and did construct a pan-continental government...”

What a profoundly different perspective of indigenous culture and one that we aren’t taught in school.

She also gifted us some native spinach which I’ve planted in our native habitat garden which will go towards in time feeding some of Heidi’s possums in care. 🙏🐹🌿

#darkemu #rewritinghistory #indigenousaustralianhistory #koalasonthegreen #changingperspectives

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