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Southern Tablelands Champions
Giving students the tools to make a difference is one of the main goals of Koala Smart. Koala Champions takes lessons beyond the classroom.
GUULABAA (Place of the Koala). Now Open
Guulabaa is the world’s first wild koala breeding facility, located west of Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Students Step Up for Koalas
St. Columba Anglican School students in Port Macquarie are engaged and inspired to create change in their community.
Small School, Big Goals
Students at Delungra Public School became concerned by the devastation caused by the drought and decided to help the environment to recover.
Saving a Species
Koala Conservation Australia (the organisation behind The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital) has embarked on an ambitious project to reverse Australia’s rapidly declining koala populations: the first wild koala breeding program in the world!
Tree Giveaway May 2024
Help regenerate bushland and important koala corridors by planting koala food trees.Â
Habitat Helpers
Imagine this: you spend a day or two away from home and when you return there’s a massive fence preventing you from getting in. What do you do? Now imagine if your house was destroyed. The plan then would be to try and rebuild. But what if a six-lane highway ran through where your home once stood?
Developing the Idea
Kempsey Adventist High School (KAS) students designed and prototyped the Koala 000 app, which was recognised with top honours as part of the Koala Smart project in 2019.
Koala Smart Communities
Koala Smart made its debut in 2019 and once all entries were in, judged and celebrated, they were taken on public exhibition to show the wider community the amazing initiatives put forward by some very creative young people.
