I love koalas (and if you don’t already know that about me… then I kind of wonder who you are and how you came across my blog).  I haven’t seen one for awhile, but A.J. and I are planning a New Year’s Australia trip, and a visit to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is always on the agenda.  🙂

I just discovered that July is "Save the Koala Month" and the last Friday in July is "Save the Koala Day" down in Australia.  The Australian Koala Foundation does lots of things to raise money and awareness about the plight of koalas.  See, koalas themselves are protected by law in Australia, but their habitat/food source is not.  More than 80% of suitable koala habitat is on private land, so people can do whatever they want to it (meaning chopping it all down) so the poor koalas have nowhere to live.  And I guess that sometimes they get attacked by people’s dogs or fall into people’s pools (seriously, it’s recommended that if you live in a koala area and you have a pool you should dangle a "stout rope" in the pool so the koalas can climb out if they fall in).

Anyway, I don’t really know much about the plight of the koalas.  But I do know koalas are cute, and I like to look at pictures of them, and if there’s a whole month devoted to koalas, well that just has to be the best month of the year!