Koala

Have you ever had to rescue a wildlife animal?  If so, how did you deal with the situation?    After bowling last night was more a memorable moment in our books because of an incident that happened. 

 

Koalas only just became listed as an endangered species for the past month. The number of koala population is declining due to ongoing large-scale destruction of bushland for housing and other urban developments, increased dog attacks and traffic movement, as well as disease and climate change. This is causing a huge number of koala deaths in the wild, leading to koalas being listed, by the Australian Federal Government, as a threatened species.

 

After we had maccies for dinner and walked towards the car, I spotted a young koala crossing the road over and over, repeatively. I was more concern about this little guy because it isn't very common to see a koala in that area on Mt Gravatt-Capalaba Road.  He looked so disoriented!! He would of been just old enough to leave his mum and survive on his own. He was at one stage had a very close call of been hit by a vehicle who left the maccies carpark in such a hurry. BOY!  That made my heart jumped out!  The last thing I wanted to see was a dead koala on the road so I was trying to guide the young one towards the fence on our side of the road.  But being so scared because of the noisy traffic, the animal was confused and didn't know where to go. 

 

Another family stopped too to help us!  The other mum tried to contact our wildlife services to see if they could come and transferred the animal back to where he's suppose to be.  All the kids and I stayed at this tree so the koala wouldn't come down during the busy road period for two hours.

 

After two hours of no show from any of the animal rescue centres, the other mum re-contact them a couple of times and then we found out they weren't planning on coming because the animal wasn't injuried.  What's the point of advertising a 24hr animal rescue service if they don't intend to call out to do their rescue.  Don't they really care about the safety welfare of our wildlife these days?  They except us to the be the babysitters all night. They should of been more honest in the first place and not gave us beat around the bush routine..   

 

After 11pm the traffic quieten down and we moved away from that tree in hoping the koala would come down. The plan worked!!  We guided the young koala to a side street where it was alot quieter and there was more trees around.

 

After school drop offs this morning, I drove back to the same area morning to see what trees are around. I don't know why the little guy came to this area because there are no gum trees there.  By the looks of it this koala may have came from the a local park or the creek further down the road (about 1-2 kms).towards the Gateway Motorway  All I hope the little guy (which we named him Spotty because of its markings on its back) didn't go back to the main road again before sunrise.

 

Can you undersand why I wasn't happy on the way the welfare service didn't take any note of our concerns to the safely on his young one? I sent a midnight email to my local radio station in hoping to create a story for the moring talk show this week.  It was just to inform the listeners to be aware what's on the road and how to handle a wildlife situation if you had to do it yourself.