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Our koala population's thriving

Posted: 01 Sep 10 | KOALAS were busy last week. |

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Case of mistaken identity: Teddy bear sent for a koala

Posted: 25 Aug 10 | LAST week we received an interesting call about a ``dead koala'' in Minto Heights. |

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Tricky job keeping track

Posted: 18 Aug 10 | TWO of our research aims have been to study young koalas when they leave their mothers and determine how the break occurs. |

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Amica visits school kids

Posted: 11 Aug 10 | JULY is an active month for male koalas and our old friend, Amica, appeared recently at St Helens Park Primary School. |

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Koala skull reveals bite of past

Posted: 04 Aug 10 | IT may sound a bit ghoulish, but whenever a koala dies, be it tagged or untagged, we prepare the skull to be a museum specimen. |

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Mum and joey reunited Mature males resting for battles

Posted: 28 Jul 10 | AS last week's column went to press, Charlotte and her large joey had been separated by a near collision with a car. |

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Posted: 27 Jul 10 | THE Campbelltown Council-sponsored Stream Care group were just unpacking their tools in the 8am frost at Spring Creek, St Helens Park on Sunday when they spotted radio-collared Courtney in a huge stringybark above them. |

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Love is in the air for the boys

Posted: 14 Jul 10 | KOALAS have started bellowing across the state. |

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Mining plans put environment at risk

Posted: 07 Jul 10 | OUR Campbelltown koala population is likely to be affected by the proposed expansion of the BHP Billiton mine near Appin. |

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Termite has role to play

Posted: 30 Jun 10 | It's estimated that a third of all Australian homes will be attacked by termites and all timber-framed houses in Campbelltown are vulnerable. |

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Females go off wandering

Posted: 24 Jun 10 | WHEN the pager message reported a koala in Stromlo Reserve, Ruse, I expected it to be Charlotte and her baby, whom we had radio-tracked to nearby Cook Reserve. |

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We spoke a bit too soon

Posted: 16 Jun 10 | MAYBE we spoke too soon last week when we suggested local koalas were having their annual ``quiet time''. |

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Joeys protected by mums

Posted: 09 Jun 10 | IT APPEARS that, at last, the quiet period has commenced for koalas. |

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Jeremy's not Sam's dad

Posted: 02 Jun 10 | We believe that the Campbelltown population is one of these recovering colonies and that it is important for the region that our young koalas now disperse as widely as they can to establish new, safe-guard groups. |

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New koala pager system working well

Posted: 26 May 10 | IN last week's chatter from the Advertiser website, a reader bemoaned the death of Curls and wondered whether we could obtain a more efficient paging system: ``... maybe Curls would have been saved if the pager had worked''. |

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Mum and joey on move

Posted: 19 May 10 | WHILE Curls and her first joey were trying unsuccessfully to cross Appin Road last week, Curls' mother, Charlotte, with her new joey, were moving further into the suburban area than we'd seen her move before. |

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Parting is indeed a sorrow

Posted: 12 May 10 | THE pager message, dated May7, 10.43pm, was stark: ``Pls ph Craig re koala hit by car, has light blue tag in left ear & dark blue or black in right ear.'' |

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Two stuffed koalas stolen

Posted: 21 Apr 10 | LABORATORY staff at the University of Western Sydney, Campbelltown, recently discovered that our two stuffed koalas had been stolen from the biology labs. |

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Unknown truth is out there

Posted: 14 Apr 10 | WE were contacted recently by a federal committee that was investigating the status of koalas in Australia. |

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Curls still alive and well

Posted: 07 Apr 10 | The adventures culminated in reports two weeks ago that Curls had been stoned. She then disappeared and we were beginning to fear the worst. |

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