Moreton Bay Regional Council is looking to take our koala colonies homes off the new mapping. The mapping provides the protected vegetation and habitats for koalas - but it no longer shows this!  The developers have already burned and cleared many of their homes. Please sign my petition to say Yes to keeping the Pine Valley area in Morayfield just the way it is now. PLEASE HELP PROTECT THE KOALAS.

Hi, I'm Moray the Koala, and here is our story:
I am very concerned about the safety of my family, and all the other koala families that live with us. My home includes thousands of wonderful eucalyptus trees in the field of Pine Valley (Jacko Place and Oakey Flat Road) in Morayfield. We’ve been sighted living here in the Pine Valley Morayfield for many years. Now, a massive corporation is looking to build 2,500 homes on the land that we live in. They plan to take out at least 150 HECTARES of our Koala Habitat, and they are ONLY offering to replace their destruction with a 100 metre koala corridor. We will not be able to survive with this!! They say that they are not removing the eucalyptus trees, but only pine trees. Yet, they have ALREADY started burning the eucalyptus trees. A ‘mapping review’ of our koala habitat in the Moreton Bay Regional area (particularly Pine Valley) NEEDS to be included in the new maps. Otherwise, when the new maps are released -  it will look like we don't live here and that they have approval to the clearing and burning of our homes!

While us koalas are mostly solitary creatures, we like to roam bushland that is familiar to us, and ‘hang out’ in our trees close by to one another. We only like to eat special eucalyptus leaves. Research shows that socially stable Koala populations occur ONLY when there are primary (or favourite) tree species present. Even if a selection of tree species known to be used by Koalas occurs within an area, it will not always support a Koala population, or at least the Koala population will not use it, unless one or two favourite species are present.

Moreton Bay Regional Council is expected to consider a decision before the end of the month (that is less than 2 weeks away!!). This proposed development will then be referred to the Queensland Government for final approval. Please help me to ask for the decision about the development to be halted until Morayfield Pine Valley koala trees are included back in the legal mapping!

By you signing this, it helps speak up to show that our koala families' homes matter and it will help the new council with their decision. There are 12 councillors - 6 of those are newly elected, and there is also a new Lord Mayor. We need them to know that this area is important for our koalas! The Queensland Government election is also soon in October 2020,  so now is the time for us to have a voice and keep our Koala Habitats on the Queensland Mapping.Be Strong - #SaveMorayfield #WeNeedAMappingReview