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Many
residents living in Pine Rivers District of the Moreton Bay
Regional Council are privileged to share
their backyards with koalas. The main koala suburbs are Bray
Park, Bunya, Cashmere, Dakabin, Eatons Hill, Joyner, Kallangur,
Kurwongbah, Lawnton, Mango Hill, Petrie, Strathpine, Warner and Whiteside.
The Pine Rivers Koala Care Association
Inc. (PRKCAI) was established in 1995 and operates as a local community
group within the Pine Rivers District of Moreton Bay. Our Association
began its work by recording the numbers of koalas hit by motor vehicles,
attacked by dogs and struck down by stress related and communicable
diseases. At
the moment the EPA classifies the koala as "regionally vulnerable
in the South East Queensland Bio-region". Statistical evidence
gathered to date indicates the koala is in serious trouble. Koalas
can no longer rely on diminishing remnant bushland. These days much
of the koalas habitat is on private property which means we as residents
of Pine Rivers District need to do more to ensure the survival of
the koala for future generations. Without human intervention to save
these precious and unique animals, we may be seeing the beginning
of the end for koalas in our urban areas. |
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