Koalas in the Northern Tablelands
Channel: Local Land Services NSW
Date: 13/02/2022

There's lots of focus on coastal koalas - but Northern Tablelands has lots of koalas as well! 

Join koala researcher Romane Cristescu from University of Sunshine Coast and Des Andersen from Southern New England Landcare to learn about:
🐨 Why survey Koalas [3:29]
🐨 Fun facts about koalas [3:50]
🐨 How long they live [5:57]
🐨 Home range [6:04]
🐨 Joeys [6:21]
🐨 Koala evolution [7:06]
🐨 Koala diet [7:34]
🐨 The vulnerability of koalas [9:17]
🐨 Threats [9:50]
🐨 Northern Tablelands Cool Country Koala Project 2016-22: Surveying where koalas are found on the Northern Tablelands [10:37]
🐨 How we find them - sniffer dogs find the scats [12:30]
🐨 The top best trees koalas like [13:33]
🐨 Where we have found koalas on the Northern Tablelands [14:20]
🐨 Chlamydia and genetics in Armidale and Inverell koala populations [17:39]
🐨 What can you do for koalas [19:21]
🐨 Identifying male and female koalas [21:06]
🐨 Identifying if a koala is sick, especially with chlamydia [22:24]
🐨 Identifying individual koalas [23:46]
🐨 Identifying koala scats [24:14]
🐨 Recording sightings (HINT: OzAtlas or I Spy Koalas apps) [25:31]
🐨 Protecting/Restoring habitat [26:19]
🐨 How to help koalas (protect the health and extend of your woodland ecosystems, tie up your dogs especially at night, have water out in dry times) [26:54]
🐨 Koala Partnership Project [28:59]
🐨 Why we need to protect koalas on the Northern Tablelands [34:13]
🐨 How livestock and weeds can threaten koalas [34:57]
🐨 How climate change and natural disasters threaten koalas [38:45]
🐨 Koala monitoring in the Armidale area [40:08]
🐨 What landholders and the community might like to do [42:00]
🐨 Audience Question: What is happening with the recruitment of young koalas [48:44]
🐨 Audience Question: Weeds and koalas [50:55]
🐨 Audience Question: Are young eucalypts poisonous to koala? (includes information on gut biomes) [52:03]
🐨 Audience Question: Can koalas move or migrate during times of drought? [53:51]
🐨 Audience Question: How common is a white koala? [57:38]
🐨 Audience Question: Why we are doing the surveys to the North East of Tenterfield [58:04]
🐨 Audience Question: How can we find more information on preferred trees in our area [1:00:26]
🐨 Audience Question: Do aggressive birds have an impact on koalas [1:01:22]