You’ve probably seen quite a bit about koalas lately. About their population numbers reaching dangerous lows, about cars and dogs causing the biggest number of fatalities and about the dedication of volunteer groups who nurse injured koalas that reach them with limited success as injury is typically fatal.
There is a reason you’ve been reading so much lately – the time to do something to make a considerable impact on koala survival has arrived. Are you a friend of the Tweed koalas? If a friend could not stand up or speak up for themselves in the face of threat surely you would be there for them to do whatever you could?
Well now is that time – the koalas earnestly need friends at a meeting of Tweed Shire Council on Tuesday, January 24, 10.30am. (Alternatively write a quick line to : tsc@tweed.nsw.gov.au)
Councillors will be considering the recommended protections for koalas in the Kings Forest residential development.
They have the option of supporting the expert advice of staff regarding this endangered koala colony or they can simply disregard it.
Strange as it seems such advice has been previously disregarded – they have “noted” rather than “endorsed” it.
As your representatives please come and show them you support the right action on behalf of the silent but highly valuable minority that is Tweed’s wildlife.
Marion Riordan
Condong
