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Young female koala in the fork of a tree , holding onto the branch in front of her and peering over her left shoulder to camera. Her face is partially obscured by her arm.

Beautiful orphan Honeydew is free!

Honeydew was found sitting on road near a precarious bend around midnight one night in September 2024. The person who found her simply walked over and picked her up – not something you can usually do with a koala! They called the Friends of the Koala hotline and kept her quiet overnight in a large… Read More »Beautiful orphan Honeydew is free!

Male koala Momo is sitting in a tree facing camera. His eyes are open and he looks relaxed. His large nose and the texture of his thick fur are clear.

Momo the handsome new koala arrives!

Momo arrived at Koala Gardens in July 2024, during the dispersal season. He is a beautiful sub-adult male. Koalas disperse each year around July – November. When young koalas disperse, they are looking for a home range to call their own. On arrival he weighed around 5 kg. You can imagine 7-9 kg for a mature… Read More »Momo the handsome new koala arrives!

Young koala with red tag in right ear sitting on a thin branch of a forest red gum looking down at the camera with sleepy eyes

Pudding makes her great home choice.

Pudding came into Friends of the Koala close to Christmas, 2022, hence her name. She was found clinging to her mother’s back on the ground. Once in hopsital it was found that Pudding’s mum was very unwell with cancer but still managed to somehow care for her joey. Despite her mother being so compromised, Pudding… Read More »Pudding makes her great home choice.

Joey Jasper lying back in a tree peering through the leaves surrounding him. His eyes are open and his young face looks alert.

Jasper, one gorgeous koala!

Jasper’s mum Onyx arrived at Koala Gardens in December 2023. It didn’t take long for Katrina to discover that she had a bulging pouch. We watched with delight until her joey emerged. We have followed him since then. He emerged from mum’s pouch when he was around 6 or 7 months old. Having a lot… Read More »Jasper, one gorgeous koala!

Onyx, a large female koala with dark fur is sitting in the fork of a tree, holding onto the tree trunk in front of her and looking back over her left shoulder

Onyx: one super big koala mum!

Onyx was first seen and identified at Koala Gardens on 17th December 2023 in a tree right beside Hope  She is a beautiful, healthy koala, so large that Katrina initially thought she was a boy! Her beautiful dark colouring influenced the name she was given. One of the next times Katrina  saw her she realized… Read More »Onyx: one super big koala mum!

Juvenile male koala sitting in small branches of dark wet barked swamp mahogany with arms crossed in front of his chest. He has large ears and partly closed eyes.

Elmo

Elmo is the second joey of Koala Gardens favourite Ellie and a younger sibling to Eddie. Elmo was a strong, healthy joey and watching him emerge from the pouch and grow up to be a strong, healthy and confident koala was a joy for us all. He is a high climber, just like his mum.… Read More »Elmo

Ellie as an adult laying sprawled on a large smooth barked red gum branch with her eyes half close and left hand holding on. her ears are huge

Ellie

Ellie Koala

A close up of large male koala Valentine’s face as he looks over his right shoulder to camera. His dark nose with its heart shaped nose pattern are prominent. As are his white chin and large fluffy ears. His eyes are open, he looks relaxed. The tight close up offers a view of the texture of and shading in his this brown-grey fur.

Valentine

Valentine Koala

Young male koala hope looks directly at the camera which is zoomed in to his face. He has very round button eyes and holds on the branch with his left hand. The background is beautiful bokeh in natural colours.

Hope

Hope Koala

Eddie at 12 months old sitting apart from mum in a swamp mahogany with rough bark. His eyes are round and bright, his ears big and he has a big black nose with no pattern showing from this angle.

Eddie

Eddie Koala

Left profile of Egwene as she shakes her head to remove water droplets high in a tree.

Egwene

Egwene koala

Maxine with bright round eyes, erect ears and pale grey fur is holding a thin branch with both hands and looking to the right

Maxine

Maxine koala

Close up of Jordans face showing a large round head, smaller ears, small eyes and big roman nose.

Jordan

Jordan koala

Grace is on some thin horizontal branches holding on with all hands and feet as she ventures out for a feed of leaves at the end

Grace

Grace koala

Mist on left with her back young Krissy on right. They are holding onto each other and Mist holds the tree. They are the same shade of greay and Mist's nose pattern is very obvious. They both have large ears. Their eyes are open and they look alert

Mist

Mist koala

Phoenix sitting on a horizontal branch with large joey in lap. Phoenix is shown side on, joey looking directly at camera. they are both dark furred with large ears.

Phoenix

Phoenix koala

Pearl is a large female koala and she is sitting on a horizontal smooth tree branch looking down with her feet up

Pearl

Pearl Koala