06/03/2017

Koala research in the Oakey district dates back to at least 1972, and our group has continued the research into this population by conducting periodic surveys, at a property midway between Oakey and the New Acland Coal site. The population data available for this district are more temporally comprehensive than for any other site we are aware of, despite the long periods of research inactivity. As a result, the potential to develop long term information on a koala population is immense. We have

12/27/2016

We are studying koalas all across their range in Queensland (and even some further south). In our most recent trip, we found koalas moving more than ten km in just two months! Our previous record moves had been less than 5 km, by koalas in the Clermont area of central Queensland. Both male and female koalas will move large distances, sometimes to disperse from their natal home range, other times perhaps because they are displaced (perhaps in the case of males pushed out during the breeding

11/24/2016

Daylight saving time (DST) could reduce collisions with wildlife by changing the timing of commuter traffic relative to the behaviour of nocturnal animals. To test this idea, we tracked wild koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in southeast Queensland, where koalas have declined by 80% in the last 20 years, and compared their movements with traffic patterns along roads where they are often killed. Using a simple model, we found that DST could decrease collisions with koalas by 8% on weekdays and 11%