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Have you seen a koala in, or near, the Inverleigh Nature Conservation Reserve in recent years? We’d love to hear about it from you. Janet Vickers found this koala in the Reserve in 2014. I haven’t seen one for at least 20 years. In the 80s and 90s it was not unusual to see a koala in the reserve occasionally. Manna gums and river red gums proliferate in the Reserve, and both are among the koala’s favourite eucalyptus species.

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The most common reasons for koala population decline are habitat loss, fire, predation by feral animals and the disease chlamydia. In the case of the Inverleigh koalas, the prime suspect is the Millennium drought (1997–2009). In her PhD research, Dr. Valentina Mella found that, during a long drought, eucalyptus leaves become drier, resulting in the koalas leaving their trees to search for water. During the drought all the ponds and creeks within the Inverleigh Reserve were dry for most of the time. Please contact us if you have other information or opinions on this question.

A charity called Koala Clancy Foundation has plans to vegetate a large area of farmland immediately adjacent to the Inverleigh Nature Conservation Reserve, for the purpose of establishing more koala habitat. Some facts: Koala joeys are born only 2 cm long. Gum leaves are toxic to most mammals. Koala joeys eat some of their mother’s droppings to obtain the micro-organisms they need to digest gum leaves. Koalas do not live in Tasmania, W.A. or the N.T. Koalas are not bears.