Queensland Koala Crusaders have reported the return of a koala in Noosa Heads National Park after no koala sightings since August.
QKC member Bernard Jean discovered the new girl to be named Servanda in the park last week while looking for a brush turkey he hoped to rescue because it had some steel wool around one leg.
“I stumbled on this proud female in a melaleuca tree between the Service Road and the Coastal Walk,“ he said.
“She quietly looked at me and went back to his koala business, resting and eating. That was a delight to see her as, to my knowledge, there hadn’t been any koala sighting reported in the Park since 31 August when a koala known as Allegro and Mornington was seen at Tea Tree Bay.“
Bernard said last year we had five koalas who appeared around Tea Tree Bay, Zahra (infertile female) and 4 males: Teaboy, Boice, Denzel and Allegro/Mornington.
“They disappeared one by one,“ he said. “Zahra was last seen on 26/10/2019 at Tea Tree Bay. Teaboy was last seen on the Tanglewood track on 01/05/2020, Boice was last seen at Laguna Lookout on 16/03/2020 and Denzel was last seen at Tea Tree Bay on 10/11/2019.“
He said there had been a possible sighting of late Aggie’s off-spring Brynn on the Sunshine Beach part of Noosa National Park and other reports of a male and female at Tea Tree Bay were yet to be confirmed.
“Current times are so hard for them with habitat loss, car strikes, dog attacks, stress and sicknesses and bushfires,“ he said.
“We have to save them from extinction and from our governments’ indifference“.
He urged people to assist Queensland Koala Crusaders to make a difference for them, to plant trees and to build a sanctuary for them in the Noosa Region.
