Southern Koalas

Phascolarctos cinereus

In October 2001, Lone Pine participated in a "koala exchange program"with Perth Zoo in Western Australia and received a beautiful and fluffy Southern koala.

Found in southern-eastern Australia, Southern koalas are much bigger, fluffier and more feisty than koalas found in the north.

Sasha is now 4 years old and weighs in at 7kg; this makes her as big as some of the boys we have in the sanctuary! She has also had two joeys with our other southern koala Dusty. They are called Cobar and Coolabah

Sasha lives usually in the Southern Koala enclosure with fellow Northern koala residents, located just behind the Kindergarten.