Adopt a koala

Australia’s iconic cutie, the koala, is in trouble.   The humans have been at it again.   Cutting down their habitat for development and agriculture has destroyed a lot of their habitat.   Raging wildfires have either killed a lot of koalas, injured them, or left the ones who survived without anything to eat or drink.  Dog attacks, climate change and hits by cars have all contributed to the loss of koalas.  And the koala is susceptible to disease – chlamydia. A new vaccination will hopefully help. 

In the meantime, koalas remain cute and cuddly,  and lots of people want to help them which is fantastic.  The fact that you’re on the hunt for a koala to adopt as a gift means a lot, both to the people helping koalas and probably to the koalas themselves.   Many adoption programmes help care for koalas who’ve been rescued from wildfires or injured in road accidents.

So here are a list of places where you can adopt a koala as a gift, both in Australia and the UK. 

Longleat Safari Park has a number of koalas, who are part of the International Breeding Programme.    (There’s a Koala Creek VIP Tour you can treat a koala lover to at Longleat.)  Edinburgh Zoo has an adoption programme.

In Australia, you can adopt a koala from

• Australia Koala Foundation, Queensland
• Koala Conservation Australia, New South Wales
• Friends of the Koala, New South Wales

But what koalas REALLY need is for you to support tree planting initiatives and give them a home.  As the koalas tell us, without a tree, there is no me.

Go through 2026 with this Koala Calendar
to help you keep track of all those important events and things in your life. 
From the Calendar Club.

Koala Conservation Charities are on a Mission!

Koala conservation charities are on a mission, to make sure there’s a future for koalas.   They are driving forward to plant trees, restore habitat, raise awareness of the plight of koalas and deliver protection to koalas from the disease chlamydia. 

Your gift can help with this journey and mission.  Your gift can make an impact.  You can help charities plant trees.

The good thing about supporting tree planting is that the tree will last longer than an adoption, most of which last a year.  And you can support tree planting wherever you are in the world, to help Australia’s koalas, by supporting an appeal or donating online. 

Friends of the Koala give you the chance to Adopt a Tree – and you can adopt more than one tree if you want! 

Koala Clancy Foundation enables you to donate for 1, 5 or 10 trees, or another amount. 

The Australian Koala Foundation gives you the chance to protect a tree & grow a forest - from wherever you are in the world.  Help extend the biodiversity and forest at their 100 acre nature reserve and research station.  Find out more here.  

Koalas need eucalyptus trees.  These trees give these gorgeous koalas food, shelter and safety.   

Organisations, supported by lots of koala and nature lovers, are planting lots and lots of trees with volunteer tree planting days.  Landowners in some cases (Bangalow Koalas) are giving up land so that a wildlife corridor can be planted for koalas and other wildlife. Bangalow Koalas are aiming to plant 500,000 trees by 2025 - they are not far off!  Find out more here.

The Koala Clancy Foundation are aiming to plant 300,000 trees by 2030 - be a part of this journey and help koalas, as your gift to the koala lover in your life! 

The Koala Hospital Port Macquarie gives you the chance to fund a koala fruit tree, to support their wild koala breeding programme, to support their koala hospital - and yes, to adopt a koala.  Visit their website here. 

Let’s give koalas a future!

Meanwhile, a koala makes a surprise visit to a grocery store - take a look here!