Koalas of Raymond Island

Koalas of Raymond Island KoRI is a volunteer run Shelter that rescues, cares & rehabilitates sick & injured koalas and raises orphaned koala joeys.

Donations: 🐨💚
Koalas of Raymond Island Inc. BSB: 633 000 Acct: 172 969 198
https://paypal.me/Koalasraymondisland Our Registered Wildlife Carers:
Shelley Robinson. 0438 588 642
Catherine Winzer. 0419 152 446
Carole Jones. 0424 534 345
Liz Miller 0407 452 089

05/09/2025

We were happy to spot Emily heading up a large gum late yesterday afternoon on the property. We haven’t seen her for a few weeks, but she showed us today that she isnt afraid to tackle the big trees.A bit scary watching as she tried to get a grip on a branch, which was just a lose, dead one caught high in a fork in the tree. After a bit of awkward manouvering, and a wonky jump, she finished with a couple of excellent jumps across branches before she settled to munch some leaves.

It was a proud Carers moment for Shelley as some of you might remember that Emily was a joey raised at the Shelter last year and released in October.
Three weeks after her release she was thrown from a high tree and sustained serious nerve damage to her hand, wrist, fingers and thumbs. Initiate vet assessments felt that it was highly unlikely she would regain the use of her fingers and thumbs, and euthanisia was discussed.
Many months of hard work, mixed with equal measures of TLC and Emily proved what a fighter she is….LOOK AT HER NOW!!!! Living life wild and free.💚🐨💚

04/09/2025

It is exciting to be able to move Louise and Harmony into the soft release trees for their final stage before they will be released to be wild, free koalas.

Louise has been our tiniest joey raised at KoRI, coming into care at only 380 grams last October with her extremely ill mum Thelma. Raising Louise was a challenge but an absolute joy, she has personality plus and many of you have watched our videos of Louise doing zoomies and the mischief she manages to get into to.

Harmony was an abandoned joey coming into care at the beginning of January at 1.9 kg. We certainly misnamed her in the beginning as she was a little Hellfire, who refused to settle or take formula, she did not want to be handled in any way and feed times were a nightmare. She finally settled into a routine, however she still has a very different personally doing what she wants, when she wants.
Carole nicknamed her ‘Freckles’, as she has lots of little black dot nosemarkings inside her pink nostrils.

Both girls are now over 4 kg and are enjoying being up in the Redgums enjoying the sunshine

03/09/2025

When I was sorting photos for our Calendar (yes it is in work and available soon), I came across this video of Sally and Louise at a vet visit together. Look how tiny they both were. 🥰🐨💚🐨🥰

Sadly after weeks in care, we had to say goodbye to our beautiful big boy DEXTER.Dog bites are extremely difficult to tr...
31/08/2025

Sadly after weeks in care, we had to say goodbye to our beautiful big boy DEXTER.
Dog bites are extremely difficult to treat, they require constant cleaning and treating of wounds, antibiotics, anti inflammitories and pain medication. There is always serious infection, the external damage we can see and treat, but there is usually internal damage to tendons, muscle and organs.

Dexter was a big, muscly 14kg healthy male in the prime of his life, yet his life was lost because someone had their dog off lead and not under control on the Koala Trail. We hear people say ‘my dog wouldn’t attack a koala’….WELL SOMEBODIES DOG DID!!!!

It only took two bites, injuries showed the first bite would have been from behind as he was on the ground, followed by a second bite around the top of his rear leg as he tried to escape up a tree.

Thank you to Lance who called KoRI rescue team when he saw a koala in a tree with raw, bleeding wounds.

Thank you to all our dedicated KoRI team , Wildlife Victoria vet team Tom & Lee and Jade from Main Street Vet Clinic who all worked tirelessly to try and give Dexter a chance. 😢💔

22/08/2025

A big week with the ‘Awesome Foursome’…… Louise, Harmony, Jasmine and Sally finally given access to all the big trees in our pre release enclosure.
Little Miss Adventure, Louise was allowed to go first, not because we thought she was the more capable , but because we suspected she could cause havoc with the other girls with her excitement, enthusiasm and tendency for jumping and zoomies.

She had no hesitancy in taking off up the tree without a backwood glance, then just when we thought she was being very well behaved she started jumping and zoomies at a height of 10 metres up the tree, caused us all to nearly have heart failure.

Louise still gives herself away when she starts to twitch her ears, it usually means she is able to jump and do zoomies or get into some form of mischief. Watch and see if you can spot the ear flicks, you can easily spot the ones near the end of the video.

Louise came into care a tiny 380 gram joey………LOOK AT HER NOW!!

The girls will all spend their time in the big trees building up some muscle and strength and learning how to we wild koalas, before they will be ready for their final release.
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On a walk around the Shelter property today we spotted ‘FYLNN’, who we released 2 years ago. Some koalas we release and...
22/08/2025

On a walk around the Shelter property today we spotted ‘FYLNN’, who we released 2 years ago.
Some koalas we release and never see again, others are hard to identify unless then come into care again and we can scan their microchip.
What a big, muscly handsome koala he has grown up to be.
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See comments for one of my favorite photos of Flynn. 🥰

18/08/2025

UPDATE: Sadly despite weeks of care we were unable to save poor Dexter and we had to say goodbye. 😢💔

DEXTER is very good, letting us treat his wounds even though they are very sore to touch. His wounds need to be flushed, cleaned and dressed twice a day. Some of the wounds are starting to heal well, however two of the deepest puncture wounds and his foot were looking rather nasty and required another vet visit to the Shelter on Thursday to sedate and treat him.
Dexter is back on another course of antibiotics, anti inflammatories and is still on pain medication.

If you would like to support the treatment, vet and medical costs of Dexter, donations are greatly appreciated and can be made to:

Koalas of Raymond Island Inc.
BSB: 633 000
ACCT: 172 969 198

Or via PayPal
https://paypal.me/Koalasraymondisland
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Please remember to ALWAYS KEEP YOUR DOG ON A LEAD when walking on Raymond Island.

18/08/2025

Just couldnt resist another Piper video 🥰
Last night Piper was showing us not only can she climb away from mum Melody, she can do mini zoomies, run along the cross branch and flip herself up into a branch, but she is happy to sit up there on her own and eat leaf. 💚🐨💚

Let me know if I am posting too many?

17/08/2025

Today was a fantastic example of Shelters, Carers and Rescuers working together to rescue a young joey and get her into care.
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Ricardo is in Sydney and received a call for advice and help from Noel in Koallah, Victoria (over 1000km away) who had found a koala joey on the ground.
Ricardo called Port Macquarie Koala Hospital and was given the number for Shelley at Koalas of Raymond Island for help. Raymond Island is 490 km from Koallah, so Shelley made several calls and messages to contacts in Western Victoria. Finally organising with an amazing rescuer Jen who was prepared to make the 3.5 hour trip to pick up the joey from Koalah and transport it to Sandi at Anakie Wildlife Shelter.

A huge thank you to everyone for your help today,
Noel from Koallah, Ricardo from Help Save the Wildlife & Bushlands in Cambelltown, Shelley from Koalas of Raymond Island, Shelley from Hamilton Wildlife Shelter, Jen our rescuer and Sandi from Anakie Wildlife Shelter
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16/08/2025

Just a reminder of how tiny PIPER was just 6 weeks ago.
The video is quite long but Piper was so active and interacting with her mum MELODY, so I didn’t want to crop any of it off. 🥰
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16/08/2025

MELODY and her joey PIPER spent some time exploring the pre release enclosure today.
Melody is looking and moving really well, and look at how much Piper has grown. From the two tiny pink arms and legs we all watched poking out of mums pouch not so long ago, to this gorgeous little koala riding around on her mums back.🥰.
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30/07/2025

And just because she is soooo gorgeous, a moment with Piper who has now weighs in at a healthy 1kg.
Mum Melody is doing well and will soon be moved out into our prerelease enclosure. 🐨💚🐨

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