This week I spent hours trying to save a Koala named Rita who lives in the Broadwater Park in Mansfield, Qld. She had a very dirty bottom, which is a common sign of chlamydia. This is a serious disease impacting koalas in SE Qld and if not treating early is fatal. Vaccines are new for such a treatment however not readily available. She passed away after being taking to the wildlife hospital. She was 6 years old, 3.9kg, a body score of 2/10. RIP beautiful girl. The Mansfield area on the Bulimba Creek catchment is a hotspot for chlamydia and the habitat is covered in non-native flora, toxic plants that are not kind to wildlife along the creek beds. Our koalas are being forced to live in an urban desert and are slowly suffering and starving.