As if Bankrupting the Nation is not enough, Now, Labor are Killing Koalas!

How to Starve Koalas – Labor's Deadly Diet!

By White Alpine Equine on Facebook

Published on January 1, 2025

You just band the trees.    

You put big metal bands around the base so there’s no way koalas can get up their feed and shelter trees, they can’t get down either if they happen to be up high and not noticed.

Other critters dependent on trees for shelter and feed who cannot fly are also trapped in the starvation cycle.

The picture below, taken by Jess Robertson, Koala Alliance shows feed and shelter trees at a camping ground in Budj Bim Park.  Why ?   According to DEECA, to  “save the trees”. 

Exactly the same thing happened in the Ballina Pacific Highway upgrade.   Dozens and dozens of feed and shelter trees were metal banded so koalas would starve.   Feed trees were mown down by bulldozers, leaving koalas homeless, stressed and starving.  Hundreds of koalas died.

Carers tell Koala Crisis that when koalas lose their home ranges, they circle the stumps of their trees, going round and round the area trying to understand what’s happened to their homes.  Some arrive in people’s back yards, some are killed by vehicles, dogs, cows, there’s no sanctuary.

They have no place to keep their joeys safe.

This is Australia.  The barbaric country that slaughters its wildlife.  Koalas, Kangaroos, Gliders, birds, you name it – if it’s a barrier to development then out the door -  death sentences are so easy to cover up when the laws designed to protect our iconic wildlife are so weak as to be almost useless.

The helicopter shooting of over 1000 koalas in Budj Bim park marks the next phase of obscene cruelty to the rapidly disappearing koalas.   Any responsible government would ensure that legislation was brought on to prevent helicopter shooting of wildlife (we think all helicopter shooting should be banned) or to stop metal bands being used to prevent koalas and other forest fauna getting access to the trees they need to survive.

There is no state in this country that has legislation to ensure koala habitat is protected.   Endangered status in NSW and Queensland has been nothing more than words on paper.

We are witnessing the deliberate, calculated destruction of the koala.   There’s never been a more desperate time for politicians to be koala champions, to be their voice.

The conservation movement is not united, there are many organisations focused on easy solutions that make not one jot of difference.   Look no further than the abject silence from major environmental organisations over the helicopter slaughter.    Several major organisations were involved in the stakeholder meetings which approved the slaughter.

The aerial killing is so serious - it should have been treated like the global media has done  – a front page outcry -with press conferences held by major organisations calling on the Victorian government to immediately cease the killing.   There are no excuses.

Thank you to the grass roots groups who are doing the hard yards.   They’re the ones standing in the way of ongoing destruction.   They have to witness the heart-breaking tragedy being visited on innocent defenceless koalas.

Koala Crisis urges those of you who care to donate to the legal fighting fund.   Any excess funds will be donated to specific, special koala carers who are literally risking their lives trying to protect koalas and their precious young.  

The link is: https://www.givenow.com.au/koala-crisis.

Please keep fighting for justice for koalas.   

We are their voices. A special shout out to Koala Alliance - they're doing an incredible soul destroying job.

Now, Labor are Killing Koalas!