This field season promises to be an exciting one with the
recovery of manna gums in our main site to document, lots of sites to survey
for koalas, and some short-term studies of koala breeding behaviour. Our first Earthwatch trip is only a week away with more trips planned for November
and February. Earthwatch has arranged for a documentary to be made of our
research so the September Earthwatchers can look forward to being film stars!
I last visited Cape Otway two weeks ago and was very happy
to see trees continuing to recover. There are fewer koalas than in previous
years but this is a good thing because those that are present are healthy. Our
collared koalas that survived the population crash are looking good. Buffy has
settled in the south of the manna gum site near Bimbi Park, and Beast and Sally
are back within their old ranges. Dave has settled a bit further to the north
and Bella a few km to the north of him again. Scarface dropped his collar
months ago but the locals occasionally see him.
Happy days!
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| Fewer koalas in Manna Gum means that those that are there are healthy |
