We're aiming to double koala numbers
We're committed to reducing our environmental impact and supporting the transition to a more sustainable future.
We’ve partnered with World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia),1 to protect and restore the homes of the koala.
Together, we aim to double koala numbers across eastern Australia by 2050.
Koalas at a critical crossroads
While the koala is the quintessential Australian animal, it sadly is facing a crisis as an endangered species.
In 2022, the koala on Australia’s east coast were officially listed as an endangered species, after dramatic population decline. Habitat destruction, climate change and extreme weather events including bushfires and floods have had a significant impact on koalas.
WWF-Australia is working tirelessly to turn this tragedy around and Australia Post is joining them to protect and restore the homes of a great Aussie icon - the koala.
How we’re supporting koala conservation with WWF-Australia
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Video: The Australia Post logo sits in the top right corner. In a leafy tree, a koala raises its fluffy ears. In a park, a white-haired man wears an Australia Post polo shirt. Text: "Paul Graham, Group CEO and Managing Director, Australia Post."
Audio: Paul: We've got a great partnership with WWF. It's one of our key imperatives we know to be a sustainable organisation and look after our planet.
Video: Paul and a man in a WWF shirt walk in the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital. They visit a koala enclosure.
Audio: Paul: We've got a program and a relationship with WWF that's focused specifically on koala preservation. As we know, they're one of the most endangered species in the world. So our goal is to help raise funds to ensure we can not only preserve those koalas that are around but actually grow that population, particularly in the east coast of Australia where we know they're particularly under threat.
Video: Hospital staff open a crate at the base of a tree. A koala climbs out and up the trunk. The man in the WWF shirt stands in a garden. Text: "Dermot O'Gorman, Chief Executive Officer, WWF-Australia."
Audio: Dermot: The funds raised by Australia Post support WWF's Koalas Forever program, an ambitious program to double the number of koalas on the east coast of Australia. That helps to plant trees, to reduce the threats, to support wildlife hospitals, like this one in Currumbin, which really make a difference to turning around a declining population of koalas and towards a national goal of doubling koalas on the east coast.
Video: A sign for Currumbin Wildlife Hospital features a koala. Paul and Dermot listen to a man in a green hospital shirt. The man stands in a garden. Text: "Dr Michael Pyne, Head Veterinarian, Currumbin Wildlife Hospital."
Audio: Michael: Currumbin Wildlife Hospital have been vaccinating koalas now for the past three years. The chlamydia disease is a massive killer of our native koalas. It's a disease that's tricky to treat and, you know, it's really spreading through our koalas.
Video: A vet gives a koala eye drops. A woman in a brown WWF shirt is interviewed near the hospital. Text: "Tanya Pritchard, Senior Manager, Koala Recovery and Landscape Restoration, WWF-Australia."
Audio: Tanya: Koalas are on their way to being extinct in the wild by 2050 and this is because we have a really increasing number of threats and also there's a lot of habitat clearing still going on, with trees being cleared which are really important homes for koalas.
Video: Tanya, Dermot, Michael and Paul are photographed outside the hospital. They hold toy koalas and a huge postage stamp that features a photo of a koala. Vets sedate a koala.
Audio: Paul: So we've got a three-year partnership specifically focused at making sure we can do whatever we can to not only preserve koala populations, but indeed to make them more proliferate and actually grow those populations over time.
Video: Vets monitor the koala. Tanya, Dermot, Michael and Paul visit the hospital.
Audio: Dermot: Being able to work with Australia Post to get the message out around endangered koalas for people to take action in their local neighbourhoods to support koala action through donations is a really important part of the partnership between WWF and Australia Post.
Video: Koalas perch and climb in trees.
Audio: Paul: It's a fantastic cause. Like all things Australia Post, we'll really get behind it, and our communities and our post offices and everyone in Australia Post I know feels really good about this relationship and we're very proud to be part of that relationship as well.
Video: Text appears over a leafy bushland canopy. "Australia Post is joining WWF-Australia in their mission to double koala numbers across Eastern Australia by 2050." The Australia Post logo appears on a red screen. It moves to the left. The white right half of the screen now has the WWF logo and the words "Working together to protect koalas."
Awareness-raising stamp series
In August 2024, we launched the Koalas In Danger stamp series to raise awareness of the regions where koalas are officially listed as endangered.
Educational resources for teachers
Australia Post and WWF-Australia have created a series of lesson plans to work with the Australian curriculum. Designed by educational not-for-profit organisation Cool.org, the lessons educate students about the importance of protecting koalas from the threats that are pushing them to extinction.
Say g'day to Pip the Koala!
Pip encourages everyone to take small steps to deliver a better tomorrow through environmental awareness. One small koala can't change the world, but Pip knows that together, we can make a big difference.
For every Pip the Koala toy sold, we'll donate $2 to WWF-Australia to help protect and restore the homes of Australia’s koalas.3
Pip the Koala toys are available online and in-store at participating Post Offices nationwide while stock lasts.
Donate to WWF-Australia
Your donation will help WWF-Australia to:
- build a network of new wildlife and koala hospitals
- replant and restore koala habitat - connecting a network of wildlife corridors along the east coast to allow koalas to move freely and easily through fragmented landscapes.
- support landowners to manage their properties for their
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1 World Wide Fund for Nature - Australia (WWF-Australia) (ABN 57 001 594 074) Suite 3.01, Level 3/45 Clarence St, Sydney NSW 2000. wwf.org.au
2 For each Pip the Koala (plush) sold, $2 will be donated by Australia Post (Australian Postal Corporation, ABN 28 864 970 579, 111 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, auspost.com.au) to WWF-Australia (ABN 57 001 594 074, Suite3.01, Level 3/45 Clarence St, Sydney NSW, wwf.org.au) to help restore and protect the habitats our koalas and Australian wildlife call home. Campaign commences 15 May, while stock lasts.
3 These lesson plans have been developed with Cool Australia.