News & Events
Forestry V Koalas
Many of you have been sending AKF the recent footage of Koalas being bulldozed out of a tree in a bluegum plantation. Naturally, Deborah and the rest of the AKF team have seen it. Sadly we h...
Canberra fiddles while fires burn
Like many seeing the fires rage in South Australia, the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) is deeply concerned about the fate of Koalas. While no one knows exactly how many animals died in the fires...
No faith in Shenhua science
Australia Koala Foundation (AKF) chief executive officer Deborah Tabart was scathing in her comments to the Shenhua PAC hearing on Thursday, claiming the Chinese miner’s projected impacts on the koa...
Lend a Finger or Two for Save the Koala Month!
We are all very excited (and busy) here at the AKF! This is because September is coming up, which is Save the Koala Month. This is our annual awareness and fundraising campaign, which we h...
Australian Koala Foundation Receives Royal Mail
This week Deborah Tabart, OAM CEO Australian Koala Foundation has received a royal letter from The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, thanking the Australian Koala Foundation for the Koala Backpack sent t...
Australian Koala Foundation issues warning on the Watermark Coal Project in Gunnedah NSW
The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) has today lodged a submission with the Planning Assessment Commission currently reviewing the Watermark Coal Project for the New South Wales Government, warning o...
AKF Submission to Inquiry into Bilateral Amendment Bill
The Australian Koala Foundation has written to a Federal Government Senate Inquiry to raise some of our concerns regarding the Federal Government’s ‘one-stop shop’ policy. The AKF is conce...
Prince George helps sell 1,000 children’s backpacks in two days
Tomorrow Prince George will arrive on Australian soil for only the second time. His first visit, of less than an hour, made headlines around the world. What his second visit will bring is anyone’s g...
From the point of view of a koala, any ‘offset’ program is ridiculous
I was sitting in the department of the environment in Queensland about 10 years ago when I first heard about “offsets”. The Australian Koala Foundation and others had been invited in for a briefin...
The Quinlan’s Made the Right Decision
“Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) research teams made an exciting discovery at their much loved Quinlan’s property last week and of course it was; Koala pooh! It would have been bett...
