Females keep mum close

Posted: 17 Mar 10 | THIS was a quiet week on the koala sightings pager. Autumn and winter tend to be quieter times for koalas while they take a breather before the next breeding seasons starts at the end of winter. |

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A slower pace in March

Posted: 10 Mar 10 | USUALLY koalas have an autumnal recession in March, which gives our koala team a bit of a break. |

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Sugar glider found in Wedderburn gets better

Posted: 24 Feb 10 | ONLY one call came in on the koala pager this week. It was to report the discovery of a rather stunned sugar glider in Wedderburn Gorge. |

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What's in the eucalypt trees

Posted: 17 Feb 10 | THE wandering Curls continued her tour of Airds last week, being spotted on Wednesday outside the police station. |

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A sibling for Curls emerges

Posted: 10 Feb 10 | FOLLOWING our report of the continuing adventures of Curls last week, another call came in to say that last Friday she was still in Heathfield Place where she had arrived on Australia Day. |

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Curls continues to hit the road in search of a home

Posted: 03 Feb 10 | CURLS' adventures continued from last week's report where she was seen entering Airds High School. |

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School kids await visits from wandering marsupials

Posted: 27 Jan 10 | Last Friday night, Airds High School received its first koala visitor (as far as we know). |

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Sightings pose new queries about marsupial behaviour

Posted: 20 Jan 10 | THE residents of a house beside the walkway between Irvine Place and James Ruse Park in Ruse were perhaps a little sceptical when we told them they had a koala in their garden. |

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Unknown territory explored

Posted: 14 Jan 10 | The little koala reached out with both arms as if to say: ``Give me a cuddle.'' |

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Glider found

Posted: 22 Dec 09 | RAY Whitmore walks regularly along some of the many fire trails of Kentlyn and frequently calls us to report sightings of koalas. One of his calls, however, was to report a strange mammal that had caught itself on a barbed-wire fence. |

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Curls makes her great escape

Posted: 16 Dec 09 | THE adventures of Curls, the young female koala from Ruse, continued this week. |

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A case history of injuries

Posted: 09 Dec 09 | THE pager call came in at 9.30pm reporting a koala at the Woodlands Road service station in St Helens Park. |

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Boys find sprawled oldies

Posted: 02 Dec 09 | AFTER Julie Wasson's bag of koala sightings last week, another of our regular spotters, Ray Whitmore, also did well last Friday on the fire trail that runs from Old Kent Road to Coral Avenue. |

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Aces report their sightings

Posted: 25 Nov 09 | IN the week since Monday, November 16, there have been eight calls to the koala pager to report sightings. In itself, that number is not so unusual except that six of them were from one person, reporting five koalas. |

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Our colonies do offer hope

Posted: 18 Nov 09 | LAST week an item appeared in Sydney's media suggesting the koala population in NSW could be as low as 8000. |

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Mind our friends' furry ears

Posted: 11 Nov 09 | DIRK, from ''Dirk's backyard'' called from Wills Road, Long Point, to report a koala with a yellow tag in its left ear. |

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Male behaviour

Posted: 04 Nov 09 | LAST week we farewelled Jeremy at Tarlo River National Park after removing his radio collar. |

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Price was just right

Posted: 21 Oct 09 | A FEW weeks ago we were contacted by Blake Draper, a student from Mary Immaculate Parish Primary School, Eagle Vale, who wanted to raise money for koala conservation by running a stall at the school's annual spring fete (this Saturday, 9am to 3pm). |

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