Kallama Origin of name: Kallama is taken from the word “everywhere” in the Wathaurong/Wadawurrung language around the You Yangs. That’s where we want koalas: everywhere they can be. Known since: He emerged on 17 June 2020, which makes his birthday around mid December...
Last year, every one of our tour visitors planted a tree for a koala. Without a spade, hammer or gloves. While our tourists were watching a Koala mum & joey canoodling, or swimming with Whale Sharks or photographing a Superb Lyrebird, we planted a tree for them....
There’s lots of amazing and interesting facts about koalas, but with new science and breakthroughs happening all the time, here’s the latest news about koalas: Why go to the bar, when the drinks come to you? Fact #1: Koalas drink stemflow – rain running down the...
by Janine Duffy Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera) is an Invasive Weed of National Significance (1) that has infested the You Yangs Regional Park, VIC since being introduced for erosion control in the 1940’s. It spread rapidly after the 1985 Lara bushfires, and...
by Janine Duffy Long-term koala Phascolarctos cinererus population research in Victoria is rare, especially in the grassy woodlands away from the coast. The You Yangs Regional Park, just west of Melbourne, is home to a koala population in a dry woodland, and has been...
The purpose of our community information events and this article is to get trees planted for koalas on private land – urgently. Echidna Walkabout Nature Tours and Koala Clancy Foundation are working with local community to ensure that wild koalas have a future...
