Information on Koalas:
- Koala's Spend most of their time sleeping.
- For a few hours each day they eat gum leaves.
- Gum leaves don't give much energy, so they have to eat a lot to stay warm and move around.
- A baby Koala is carried in it's mothers pouch (feeds on her milk).
- When they are big enough rides on her back
- may stay with it's mother for 2 years before leaving to fin it's own home.
- The Australian Koala Foundation (AFK) is the principal non-profit,non-Government organised dedicated to the conservation and effective management of the wild koala and its habitat.
- Organises a save the koala month (September).
- Does not recieve (nor seeks to recieve) Government funding.
- Koalas are disappearing. Loss of koala habitat and koala food trees (eucalyptus leaves) is the leading koala threat. You can help save the koalas by supporting the Australian Koala Foundation.
- Their saying is: No Tree, No Me.
- You can also help by:
- Fostering a Koala
- Planting a tree online
- Buying Merchandise from the koala shop online
- Participating in the Help the Koala month
- Making a donation to the Australian Koala Foundation
- Make a Bequest
- Help them fundraise by selling their merchandise
- Scribe for free to the Koala news.
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