Paxton is recovering from nasty wounds to his rear leg after fighting with another male koala. His wounds need to be cleaned and dressed regularly and he is on daily antibiotics.
At 12 kg he is a big, healthy male, and is not the easiest to handle, but he is slowly settling for our Carers to treat and on a hot day today, was grateful for volunteer Jane to offer him a bowl of water to drink.
Little Louise is now 557 grams and Bruce was enticing Louise to climb up a little scratching post. Success for the first attempt to climb. 👍👏👏👏
Louise has a tiny gunyah in her enclosure but hasn’t been confident to start the climb, this is a tiny step for Louise learning to climb and move into branches and then finally into little kindy trees.
One big step for one tiny koala. 🥰💚🐨💚
Louise receives 6 formula feeds day and night. If you would like sponsor the care of little Louise, donations can be made to:
Koalas of Raymond Island Inc.
BSB: 633 000
Acct: 172 969 198
Or via PayPal
https://paypal.me/Koalasraymondisland
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EMILY takes the next step to being ‘WILD & FREE’.
Emily came into care on January 6th 2024 at 1.06kg she is now a healthy, solid 5.5kg and today has progressed into two ‘soft release trees’ ready for the final stage of release.
These trees have seen several joeys released into them, and lots of wild koala frequently using them. Emily has never smelt the scents of wild koalas and spent hours sniffing every branch and fork on the trees. 🥰🐨💚🐨
YOGI caught in action yesterday along the koala trail doing what male koalas do……trying to get friendly with a female koala. The female had a young joey which she sent away higher up the tree ,while she took a swipe at Yogi and loudly told him to go away. Whilst the video is very foggy due to the humidity and rain, turn up the volume and hear their interaction.
Thank you to our KoRI volunteer, Vanessa for sharing her video and the photo is in comments. 🐨💚🐨
YOGI was released today after a short stay with KoRI.
Many of you will remember the story of Yogi. He first came into care in December 2021 with multiple injuries after fighting with another male koala, he was rescued again in December 2022 with his ear shredded, infected and full of maggots.
Yogi underwent surgery to remove his ear and whilst he looked awful, the surgery was successful and healed well and he was able to be released back to his home along the Koala Trail. We regularly receive photos of Yogi when he is spotted by residents and tourists, his fur has grown back, but is easily recognisable with only one ear.
Yogi is an older koala, but is in fantastic body condition and weight with huge muscly arms. He still seems to get into trouble either protecting his territory or venturing into another koalas areas.
Please stay out of trouble Yogi. 🐨💚🐨
Turn up the volume and listen to Yogi notifying all the koalas along the Koala Trail he is home. 🥰😂
Oscar was rescued off the Montague Point marker out over the water last week. With no injuries and an all clear of any health issues, Oscar was released today back to the waterside trees he calls home. 🐨💚🐨
It is an incredible feeling to release any koala, but releasing this one today was extra special, as we did not expect Yvette to survive for even a few hours after her rescue.
If you haven’t seen our previous post with Yvette’s photos, this was her story.
Yvette came into care when a resident found her early in the morning laying in the gutter of a road along the foreshore on Raymond Island. She was soaking wet, crying out and struggling to crawl. We had no idea how she had ended up in the water, how long she had been there, or how she managed to get herself out. She was hypothermic, in shock, totally exhausted and suffering the most horrible full body tremors. We slowly dried and warmed her poor body over several hours, and treated her with fluids and pain relief. Slowly, late in the day she started to respond, and by midnight was eating leaf and had managed to climb up into the small gunyah (forked branch) in our Treatment Room enclosure. Assessments and tests over the following days revealed no injuries and after a week in care, Yvette was ready to be released.
You can see in our video that Yvette was certainly in a hurry to be released, and very quickly bounded high up into a tree. She has been marked with an orange stock marker on her rump so we can easily identify and monitor her over the coming days.
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Sally enjoyed some eucalyptus flowers after her formula feed tonight🥰
For those of you who would love a picture of Sally, she is featured in our Koalas of Raymond Island 2025 Calendar.
The calendars are $20 and all money raised goes to the care of sick, injured and orphaned koalas. 💚🐨💚
Details of how to order your calendar can be found on our page.
Did you know that koalas eat dirt to aid in their digestion. Koalas will eat dirt and also strip and chew bark when in the wild, so we always have a bowl of dirt in with our koalas in care. Our Joey, Sally was having a munch tonight, just before her midnight formula feed.🥰
Our 2025 Calendar features Sally and other gorgeous photos of joeys and koalas who have been in our care. You can order one now. 🐨💚🐨
Kitty was enjoying her formula today when Emily climbed down out of the tree above and sat on her head. (Sorry, I missed videoing that bit) Kitty took no notice and continued with dinner, while Emily headed back up the tree.
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This is more an audio clip rather than a video clip of the girl we released yesterday after being rescued from a jetty.
Has anyone ever heard a koala screeching like this? We haven’t!
We released her into trees, she climbed to the top and then started screeching. At first I thought she’d disturbed a bird but then realised it was the koala making the noise.
This video is 2.27 min long but she went on for another minute or so. One of the neighbours said he’d heard her screeching the night before and he’d never heard a koala making that sound.
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Please note: We’ve been back to check on her and she’s fine.
Jetty girl’s release
This is Lionel releasing the young girl rescued from the jetty. She was in quite a hurry to be free!
