Koalas prosper despite, or because of, the latest bushfires

In VIC and SA, where TSSC recognises that koalas are an irruptive species (this is the exactly the same species as in NSW and QLD), wildlife carers want to protect koalas by stopping harvest of timber plantations. There are apparently 50,000 koalas in areas that had none when Europeans arrived: Victorian wildlife advocates call for moratorium on blue-gum harvesting to protect koalas - ABC News

Last Wednesday, Tweed Shire Council on NSW north coast reported that thirty koalas had been hit by cars or attacked by dogs in recent weeks. The Council says that koalas are looking for "mates and new habitat" because "their habitat is small and fragmented". Koalas are supposedly "forced to travel through urbanised areas", where they risk being struck by vehicles or attacked by dogs.

Nobody seems to be asking where all these rapidly declining, nearly extinct koalas are coming from. I provided some fair dinkum data in a peer-reviewed scientific research paper to TSSC. CSIRO PUBLISHING | Wildlife Research They declined to talk with me, but they sought advice from the bureaucrats and academics who aren't forthcoming with the fact that Black Summer had no impact on koala populations.

TSSC accepted expert opinion that koalas are threatened by climate change, clearing, logging, disease, dog attacks and vehicles. In fact there are too many koalas, they are suffering as a result and are invading areas where they didn't naturally occur. The Koala Industry, including well-meaning carers, are using koalas as a weapon against sustainable use of our renewable solar-powered timber resources.