Regrettably there has been little improvement in the plight of the koala on the Gold Coast and throughout South East Queensland as the population continues to grow and the development juggernaut rolls over their habitat.
The implementation of the recommendations of the Koala Expert Panel are proving to be excruciatingly slow and every week more koalas that are dispossessed of homes are ending up at the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital.
In 2018 500 koalas were admitted to this hospital which can barely cope and many of those injured and sick animals do not make it back to what bush remains.
The mapping of koala habitat for SEQ is now complete, but is not yet available to conservation groups or interested people.
It is understood that the State Government will take a more active role in assessing planning applications in koala habitat areas and that developers may have to accept lower yields in order to retain some habitat and protect koalas.