HELP SAVE KOALAS FROM EXTINCTION.
Claude the koala stole food to survive. The real crime is that koalas could go extinct in our lifetime.
All along Australia’s east coast, koalas like Claude are starving, being hit by cars and sometimes even attacked by dogs. All because the trees they depend on for food and shelter are being cut down.
Koalas are dying out so quickly they could be gone forever by 2050. It would be criminal for these Aussie icons to go extinct. But caring people like you can help turn this around. You can give koalas like Claude more trees. Trees that will provide food, a safe place to call home and give them a better chance of survival.
Please give today to help save our beautiful koalas.
Claude the koala stole food to survive. The real crime is that koalas could go extinct in our lifetime.
All along Australia’s east coast, koalas like Claude are starving, being hit by cars and sometimes even attacked by dogs. All because the trees they depend on for food and shelter are being cut down.
Koalas are dying out so quickly they could be gone forever by 2050. It would be criminal for these Aussie icons to go extinct. But caring people like you can help turn this around. You can give koalas like Claude more trees. Trees that will provide food, a safe place to call home and give them a better chance of survival.
Please give today to help save our beautiful koalas.
Koalas like Claude need trees to survive.
Claude the koala broke into a nursery and ate thousands of dollars worth of plants. At first, it sounds like a funny story. But when you know more, it's tragic. Claude stole food because he was desperately hungry.
But you can help turn this around. The good news is koalas don’t need much to survive. For thousands of years, they’ve been happily living in eucalypt trees and munching away on the leaves.
Trees. That’s it. Trees ensure koalas are fed, housed and safe from animals that could attack them on the ground. They even get their water from their leaf-only diet. It’s a disaster for koalas when their trees get torn down. That’s why koalas are heading towards extinction on our east coast.
Just look at Claude. He lives on the NSW North Coast, where a lot of bushland is bulldozed for farming and residential development. Claude’s patch of forest is shrinking. He and his family were likely desperate and hungry. Will you please make a gift now to give koalas like Claude more trees and a safer future?
Claude's robbery exposed a much bigger problem.
Claude set off on a dangerous journey along the ground, probably to find food. There was every chance he could be mauled by a dog or hit by a car. But koalas like Claude don’t have a choice. Food means survival.
Claude reached the plant nursery, filled with thousands of eucalypt tree seedlings. What do you expect a desperate animal to do on seeing so much food? Of course, Claude broke in and more than 4.000 seedlings. Claude the great ‘leaf thief’ made headlines around the world. He didn’t know he would become a famous criminal. He was just looking for a way to survive and the nursery provided safe feeding grounds, with seemingly unlimited trees. But his story exposed the real crime: that Australia’s iconic koalas are being driven into extinction.
If you think that’s wrong, will you please donate today to help make sure koalas always have homes and enough to eat?
Your gift today:
$37
could help fund seeds and tools to grow new koala trees.
$55
could help connect fragments of koala habitat.
$105
could help create koala safe havens where they're not under threat.
Koalas need homes, food, a future - and your help.
Koalas like Claude should be enjoying a quiet life in the gum trees. They shouldn’t be hungry, homeless and forced onto the ground to face danger. They shouldn’t be clinging to survival in patches of bushland, without enough food to eat and at risk of life-threatening disease.
Claude’s story shows how much work must be done to stop our best-loved Aussie animal from dying out. They need your help to survive. Will you give today?
Koalas are the easiest species of all to save. If we have more trees, we have more koalas.
More trees = more koalas.
You can give more beautiful koalas a future - by giving them trees. When you make a generous donation today, you will be helping to support efforts to DOUBLE east coast koala numbers by 2050.
Your gift can help plant trees, protect existing trees, and ensure koalas have food and homes. It can help fund vital work to protect koalas like Claude, as well as supporting conservation efforts to safeguard beautiful animals and their homes - both here in Australia and around the world.
Please donate today and help save koalas from extinction.