Koalas in Care seeing increase in cars killing female koalas and their joeys

Julia Driscoll
Updated July 2 2019 - 11:41am, first published June 23 2019 - 4:00pm
Miss Silk and her female joey were hit by a car near Silky Oak Drive, Tinonee. Muffee, on the right, was a pouch joey. Her mother was hit by a car near the landfill on the Bucketts Way and they both survived, but the mother was later euthanized, and Muffee died eight days later due to stress and trauma. Photos supplied
Miss Silk and her female joey were hit by a car near Silky Oak Drive, Tinonee. Muffee, on the right, was a pouch joey. Her mother was hit by a car near the landfill on the Bucketts Way and they both survived, but the mother was later euthanized, and Muffee died eight days later due to stress and trauma. Photos supplied

Every year the call goes out to motorists to stop speeding, watch out for koalas on the road, and call Koalas in Care should they hit a koala, yet every year the pleas seem to fall on deaf ears.

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Julia Driscoll

Julia Driscoll

Journalist

Julia Driscoll has worked as a journalist for the Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Times for seven years. She values the deep connection with community that being a rural and regional journalist brings. Career highlights have involved environmental stories - bringing the plight of the little known endangered Manning River helmeted turtle to the attention of the public, resulting in wide-spread knowledge in the community and conservation action; and breaking the news of the Manning River ceasing to run for the first time in recorded history.

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