Koala reported near Mt Gravatt Tafe

This morning B4C received an email from a Mt Gravatt resident who woke up this morning and wandered out to her back verandah only to find a koala in her yard. Just imagine the thrill...

While you might think that this is an unusual occurrence, we get reports of koalas in backyards and urban bushland areas on a regular basis from staff, volunteers, and residents who know just how important it is to share these sightings and moments of excitement.

Reportings like this remind us all about the significance of bushland in our urban areas, and of creating links between bushland so that our non-human residents can move around and find sufficient food to sustain them. Unfortunately our suburbs aren't exactly designed for non-human use, but we can all help create 'highways' for koalas and other animals by protecting vital ecological corridor links and being involved in caring for the bushland we have. Planting native food trees in our backyards is also important - although it's unlikely you'll get koalas if you're in the middle of suburbia, you'll still be helping to provide habitat and food for lorikeets, butterflies, native bees and micro-bats, the animals that pollinate our bushland and add such beauty and interest to the world.

If you'd like to know more about planting backyards for wildlife, visit our 'resources' section on this website, or contact us for a list of local plants and those available from our community nursery.