Deborah Tabart OAM (The Koala Woman)
@DeborahTabart
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Chair of the Australian Koala Foundation. Protecting the Koala and its habitat provides an unmistakable solution in Australia's fight against climate change.
Brisbane, Australia
Joined October 2009
Koala management in Victoria is shocking. The Victorian Government wants Koalas for tourism, but is not prepared to pay for their habitats to be repaired and protected. @JacintaAllanMP
#VicPol
https://t.co/OnmwEutnXX
smh.com.au
The difficulty of moving koalas is again in focus following soaring numbers on French Island in Victoria, and deaths of translocated animals in NSW.
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Sadly, it doesn't matter how much noise we make, these trees will come down and these endangered Koalas will die. Shame @MurrayWatt #AusPol https://t.co/MbaFZvWrdb
redlandbaysidenews.com.au
Environmental advocates are warning that multiple major developments across the Redlands Coast are placing local koala populations at risk, with the Koala Action Group (KAG) calling for urgent gove…
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“Tourists flock to Australia to see its Koalas, but those taking the ferry to Victoria’s French Island are shocked to see hundreds of animals starving in trees stripped of leaves.” Due to long term bad management by the VIC Gov - #KoalaProtectionAct now! https://t.co/i1AUEAC2Qj
au.news.yahoo.com
A guide on the island says the situation is 'more than embarrassing'.
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History will judge this project and this announcement very harshly. I stand by that. Arguing over numbers is just time wasted, as habitat continues to be decimated. We need a #KoalaProtectionAct @MurrayWatt
https://t.co/GLpB2Zq2Tn
abc.net.au
Koala advocates and logging supporters have seized on the release of data showing koala population estimates tripled in the past three years.
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And our environmental laws cannot stop it happening or can they senator watt?#auspol
Giants like this are still being logged in Lutruwita / Tasmania. This tree, which could be centuries old, is destroyed in seconds. Native forest logging is still propped up by public subsidies while most of what’s logged ends up as woodchips. This destruction must end. #politas
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Giants like this are still being logged in Lutruwita / Tasmania. This tree, which could be centuries old, is destroyed in seconds. Native forest logging is still propped up by public subsidies while most of what’s logged ends up as woodchips. This destruction must end. #politas
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"Areas of state forest in Northern NSW currently zoned as hardwood eucalypt plantation and slated for logging in 2025–2026, are in fact vital koala habitat." - @savethekoala's fight to save Tucker's Nob is not over. @MurrayWatt will you step in? #AusPol
https://t.co/hiYj6FRQ3D
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Mum & Joey 🐨Spotted in Warialda (NSW). Sadly there were cars and roads in the background, not a lush green landscape. We need a #KoalaProtectionAct to ensure this joey has a future. #AusPol
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"If this population is disease-free, it makes it a vitally important part of the Koala puzzle on the Southern Tablelands because of their isolated nature...it means that they won't pick up (or spread) the disease." We need a #KoalaProtectionAct now! 🐨🌳 https://t.co/wLcdJ5wmi5
abc.net.au
A hidden group of koalas is found for the first time in a remote area of the New South Wales Snowy Mountains.
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CSIRO state Koala numbers could be 4 x higher than previously estimated - History will judge these ridiculous Koala numbers and @SenatorWatt very harshly about both these numbers and his new environment laws🐨🌳 #auspol #Auspol2025
https://t.co/iiWh7Dx2zB
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The @savethekoala team and I spotted this beautiful Koala mum and her joey in Warialda today 🐨💚 Moments like this remind us why we need a #KoalaProtectionAct - to keep them safe for generations to come! #NoTreeNoMe
@MurrayWatt @PennySharpemlc #auspol #Auspol2025
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The #KoalaProtectionAct isn’t a free pass for destruction, @MurrayWatt - no permits to take, no Ministerial override for "national interests". Protection means protection! #auspol #Auspol2025
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🚨 Up to 2,000 tree ferns ripped from a forest on the logging schedule. These slow-growing giants are sold to buyers as far away as the UK & in Australia, they're sold as mulch and stepping stones in hardware stores, including Bunnings. It’s time to end native forest logging!
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This Mum and Bub need a #KoalaProtectionAct! @MurrayWatt #auspol #Auspol2025
https://t.co/FDAHYVtN7S
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Gosh that sounds fabulous #auspol
Australia’s environmental laws aren’t working. Here’s how we want to fix them, in 60 seconds.
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Glad to hear “no significant effect” from selective logging on male koala density was found in the proposed #GreatKoalaNationalPark, but by and large most of forestry is not selective – it is take it all! #NoTreeNoMe 🐨🌳 #auspol #auspol25 #SaveTheKoala
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For every 100 Koalas that go into a hospital, only 30 come out. That’s not conservation - that's a crisis. We need action, not photo ops. #KoalaProtectionAct NOW! @MurrayWatt #auspol #Auspol2025 #SaveTheKoala
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If we truly want to protect Koalas, we must safeguard their habitats and let tourists experience them in the wild, not in hospitals. It used to be illegal to display sick and injured animals for money - what’s changed? @AndrewPowellMP @MurrayWatt #auspol
https://t.co/tuJGVJC2dN
miragenews.com
The Crisafulli Government is delivering certainty and supporting better outcomes for Queensland's injured wildlife. $39.6 million investment will
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Why were scientists and their warnings ignored? Why didn’t you leave them there @PennySharpemlc ? This translocation is politics dressed up as science; Healthy Koalas paid a huge price. @MurrayWatt we need a #KoalaProtectionAct now! #auspol #Auspol2025
https://t.co/nU0mp75QWG
cityhub.com.au
It's been revealed that the state government rejected advice from an expert scientific panel on the translocation of a group of koalas.
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The Koalas were thriving - until they were moved! Scientists called the relocation "particularly risky". Yet, it was approved anyway @PennySharpemlc? Why ? Was it to keep them away from land eyed for development near Wollongong? 🐨 #auspol #Auspol2025
https://t.co/BpyJKbWHgB
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Documents reveal state environment department had ‘reckless indifference’ to fate of individual koalas, Greens spokesperson Sue Higginson says
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