Bart Bear's Blog

I have found a great way to help my wild relatives. At Port Macquarie in northern NSW there is a koala hospital. There are lots of koalas living in the forests around the town, and also lots that live in trees in the town. Lots of koalas are taken to the koala hospital for help after they have been hurt by cars, dogs or people. The koalas are nursed back to health and then released back into the wild. Before they are released they are microchipped so they can be identified if they have to come back to the hospital for more treatment any time. The hospital treatment costs a fair bit and koalas don't have any money, so you can help by adopting one of them and that will help pay their hospital bill. As soon as I found out about this, I started working on the Oldies to let me adopt a koala. After all, it only costs $40 a year and it helps keep the koala hospital going. Well, the Oldies thought it was a great idea and adopted three koalas, one for each of us. We could even choose which ones we wanted to adopt from their pictures on the hospital web pages. I was really happy when I opened the letter from the hospital people and found adoption certificates, the stories of each of our koalas, stickers and books. I hope our adoptees are doing fine back out in the forest, and keeping clear of anything that will land them back in hospital.
If you want to help too, you can read about the koala hospital and the "Adopt a Wild Koala" program on the web at http://www.koalahospital.org.au

Labels: animals, family, New South Wales