March 2014: taking care at night

Our babies in care are Little Nell, our koala joey is now 14 months, growing well and lives full-time outside. At night she is in a secure pen to keep her safe. She will be soft released around 17 months. Ali our kangaroo joey is growing and is now 12 months old. He still requires 5 bottles of milk each day and will be weaned around 18 months.

Don't forget to follow Tim's story - it's on an earlier post on this web site and in the ferry shed. He made an excellent recovery following a dog attack and was successfully released on 26 February.

Unfortunately two older koalas (a middle-aged female and an old male) were euthanased when diagnosed with untreatable kidney failure. Sadly, we also lost Jack, another dog attack victim who had been in care for quite awhile. He suffered further infections after his immune system shut down. This combined with pain and long term treatment took its toll and he couldn’t fight the new infections. Jack was euthanaised under vet's advice .

After 3 weeks in care, we successfully released a bronze wing pigeon that had been taken into care after an old wing injury became inflamed.

Please remember that most dog attacks have occurred during the night - so please keep dogs inside or restrained between dusk and dawn when koalas are on the move.

A special thank-you to all the wonderful residents who help us care for our island wildlife.

February 2014: please remember to put out water for the all wildlife.

Baby Rock 10 months

Rocky today  18 months

 A Special Thank-you to all the wonderful residents who help us care for our fellow Islanders.

Rocky, our first koala joey raised, was soft released 3 weeks ago and now lives between our property and the neighbours. He is enjoying his new found territory. Our resident old male koala, Buster has accepted him and sometimes they even share trees.

Little Nell our baby koala is 13 months old, growing well and now lives fulltime outside. Nell is still on a small bottle of milk each day and is in the process of being weaned. Nell spends her daytime climbing freely in the eucalyptus and Boobialla trees. At night she is in a secure pen to keep her safe. She will be soft released around 17 months. We have nicknamed Nell 'monkey' as she can swing and jump extraordinary distances, up to 3 metres.

Jack's leg is healing

Tim and Jack - both dog attack victims - are responding to treatment. Jack has been with us for 7 weeks and Tim for 6 weeks. Both the boys will be released when well.

A young female koala in very poor body condition was rescued after being found sitting on the ground. Unfortunately she passed away in care 2 days later. A middle-aged male koala was also rescued after being found sitting on the ground and, unfortunately, had to be euthanized due to severe kidney infection.

Ali, our baby kangaroo joey, is growing and is now 11 months old. Ali still requires 5 bottles of milk each day. He spends most of his time in his pouch but is now venturing out and confident to stay out of his pouch for longer periods of time. Ali’s pouch is open front and he has his head out most of the day. He enjoys grazing on fresh grass roots and dirt. Ali loves to go for huge hops and can jump quite high now.

Please keep dogs on leash at all times. At night when koalas are on the move, keep dogs restrained - most of our dog attacks have occurred during the night. We ask residents to please be mindful of your dogs and the koalas. Remember we share our homes with the wildlife and they share theirs with us.