Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Koala-ty research! 🐨
Over the past three years, a dedicated team of Taronga staff, working alongside colleagues from the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and university partners have been undertaking the largest and most comprehensive assessment of Koala populations ever conducted in New South Wales.
Launched in 2023 under the NSW Koala Strategy, the program known as the Koala Sentinel Program has been collecting critical data across six individual Koala populations to better understand the complex factors influencing Koala health, movement and reproduction.
Findings show that Koala population health cannot be understood through a single measure such as population density or genetic diversity alone. Instead, it is shaped by a complex interplay of ecological, physiological and genetic factors, often with unexpected interactions.
The data already reveal variations in age structure, breeding success and disease prevalence across the populations being studied.
The project is also investigating key threats to Koala survival, including predation, habitat loss and fragmentation, surrounding land uses, and the ability of koalas to adapt to a changing climate.
Together, this work will help build a clearer picture of how these pressures are affecting Koala populations across NSW.
#Koala #Research #KoalaStudy #NSW #KoalaSentinel
Koala-ty research! 🐨
Over the past three years, a dedicated team of Taronga staff, working alongside colleagues from the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and university partners have been undertaking the largest and most comprehensive assessment of Koala populations ever conducted in New South Wales.
Launched in 2023 under the NSW Koala Strategy, the program known as the Koala Sentinel Program has been collecting critical data across six individual Koala populations to better understand the complex factors influencing Koala health, movement and reproduction.
Findings show that Koala population health cannot be understood through a single measure such as population density or genetic diversity alone. Instead, it is shaped by a complex interplay of ecological, physiological and genetic factors, often with unexpected interactions.
The data already reveal variations in age structure, breeding success and disease prevalence across the populations being studied.
The project is also investigating key threats to Koala survival, including predation, habitat loss and fragmentation, surrounding land uses, and the ability of koalas to adapt to a changing climate.
Together, this work will help build a clearer picture of how these pressures are affecting Koala populations across NSW.
#Koala #Research #KoalaStudy #NSW #KoalaSentinel
