# @hartleyscrocodileadventures on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-12-30T05:50:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hartley's Crocodile Adventures (@hartleyscrocodileadventures) — https://gondola.cc/hartleyscrocodileadventures

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Great news to celebrate the New Year.

In a year of record giving, three local charities have received $64,800 in the latest round of funding to kick their New Year's projects off.

This funding offers hope for the recovery of several endangered species of great importance to Queensland. 
The North Queensland Wildlife Trust (NQWT) has helped many researchers and local conservation groups since its inception in 2004. Each application is assessed on its worthiness to conserve native species and local habitats. Established by the Freeman family who own and operate Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures, Kuranda Koala Gardens and Birdworld Kuranda, the Trust is focused very much on grass roots conservation efforts, hands on wildlife care, critical habitat acquisition, conservation, research and preservation. At the Freeman attractions, there are easy mechanisms for visitors to make an active contribution. The primary source for the foundation funding is a small levy on all wildlife encounter photos offered at the parks and funding accumulated from the ‘Containers for Change’ bottle recycling project. A ‘win win’ for visitors so they are comforted by the knowledge that their containers are being recycled for a very worthy cause. 

The recipients include the University of the Sunshine Coast – Funding $50,000 to manufacture and distribute the first doses of the newly APVMA approved Koala Chlamydia vaccines to wild koalas to protect them from this debilitating disease and save koalas from potential extinction.

Koala populations are declining rapidly across eastern Australia due to high chlamydia infection rates. Chlamydia affects koala fertility and is one of the most significant drivers of koala population decline. 

Over the last decade, renowned microbiologist, Professor Peter Timms, has led a UniSC research team in developing, testing and validating the only single-dose chlamydia vaccine proven effective in wild koala populations.

This vaccine is now ready for manufacture and distribution to wild koalas and will reduce infection prevalence as well as reduce disease to rebuild koala populations across eastern Australia.

#koala 
#northqueenslandwildlifetrust

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