The name given to this new nose that appeared on the property yesterday - he is a good, big healthy looking fella. Thank you for so many comments on the collage of Krissy yesterday :)
@vignouse oh yes another great question Richard.
I can't answer that (and you know I'm usually full of em lol)
I had 4 or 5, and up to 8 koalas on a given day here during summer, which was a huge record. I think 8 here every day would be too many, but in another couple of years it will be different because 3000 or so of the trees here are still only 2 - 5 metres tall. So every year the property will be able to support more.
The numbers have dropped in the last 6 weeks or so, and I don't know why (but one of my koalas here is injured and in a wildlife hospital), maybe the numbers were a little too high and now it is winter the trees are needing the break.
I would guess that the property can comfortably support having 4 koalas here every day (doesn't have to be the same 4)
Time will tell. The big problem if too many koalas try to live here is that it can damage the trees and cause a population crash. That is not even close to happening, to maybe we can support 6 here every day. Oh what I love is that every time I get any kind of information, another 10 questions open up :)
@rickster549 I guess if you can picture that my property is just one dot really in the entirety of the area that koalas can live in. It is in a natural koala corridor so this is a traffic area you could say. Corridors link habitats together, so they are critical for keeping genetic diversity viable. We wouldn't want colonies to become inbred, so some koalas always have to leave and settle elsewhere.
Each koala that leaves it's mum has to find a place in the world and so it will have to travel. Some koalas have to travel further than others, particularly the boys because they are less welcome than girls. Why? Because the boys are far more territorial.
I love the great questions that get asked here!
@koalagardens This problem, after years of good protecting there become to many of them for the area, is happen now in our ``Oostvaardersplassen`` Now the have to move them or to being killed. Big problems to discide. No one agree . Have to deal it in the beginning and make a solution in the start.
Great shot of this cuty
@pyrrhula yes, my dream is to work with other private landowners so they can do what I am doing now and we develop the connectivity for the koalas to live as they should
I have seen a population in a colony about 5km away do this - become too large and then crash. So complex and as you say, no one can agree on solutions.
I can't answer that (and you know I'm usually full of em lol)
I had 4 or 5, and up to 8 koalas on a given day here during summer, which was a huge record. I think 8 here every day would be too many, but in another couple of years it will be different because 3000 or so of the trees here are still only 2 - 5 metres tall. So every year the property will be able to support more.
The numbers have dropped in the last 6 weeks or so, and I don't know why (but one of my koalas here is injured and in a wildlife hospital), maybe the numbers were a little too high and now it is winter the trees are needing the break.
I would guess that the property can comfortably support having 4 koalas here every day (doesn't have to be the same 4)
Time will tell. The big problem if too many koalas try to live here is that it can damage the trees and cause a population crash. That is not even close to happening, to maybe we can support 6 here every day. Oh what I love is that every time I get any kind of information, another 10 questions open up :)
Each koala that leaves it's mum has to find a place in the world and so it will have to travel. Some koalas have to travel further than others, particularly the boys because they are less welcome than girls. Why? Because the boys are far more territorial.
I love the great questions that get asked here!
Great shot of this cuty
I have seen a population in a colony about 5km away do this - become too large and then crash. So complex and as you say, no one can agree on solutions.