Dreamworld Wildlife Foundation Limited

During the financial year, Dreamworld Wildlife Foundation Limited has focused its efforts and fundraising on four key animal conservation, research and education priorities. These four priorities align with an ongoing commitment to tiger conservation and Queensland s own threatened species. Tigers DWF continues its long running support of priority tiger conservation projects in collaboration with our primary partner, the WildCats Conservation Alliance based at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). DWF have engaged in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ZSL for a threeyear period to assist with subsidising their operating costs. This initiative focuses on Amur tiger conservation projects in Russia s far east and tiger protection (currently on hold) and conservation programs in the Kerinci Seblat National Park in Sumatra. The projects protect tiger populations through threat detection, research, community engagement and patrols to combat poaching. The engagement of local communities is critical to increase public support and awareness of tiger conservation work as well as assisting with the improvement of law enforcement efforts to combat poaching and other illegal activities. Koalas DWF has an established formal partnership with the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology to implement a project titled A Living Koala Gene Bank. The project uses proven breeding technologies in combination with leading genetic analysis and chlamydia vaccination therapy to deliver a living koala gene bank that will improve the genetic diversity of small fragmented koala populations in SE Queensland, rescue genetic variation from animals that are suffering from disease and allow for the production of disease free koalas of high genetic merit to be released to the wild. Tree Kangaroos DWF continues to support TRRACC however, no direct financial support was provided during the year ended 25 June 2024 Tree Roo Rescue and Conservation Centre, in the conservation and community awareness of the Australia s Tree Kangaroos in the face of increasing pressure and impacts from human activity and domestic animals. TRRACC is based in the core habitat of the species in the Atherton Tablelands and is the only specialist facility dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of Australia s Tree Kangaroos primarily the Lumholtz s Tree Kangaroo. Bilbies DWF provides ongoing support to Bilbies via the Save the Bilby Fund. Save the Bilby foundation is engaged in education, research, and direct action to secure the longterm conservation of Bilbies. During the year ended 25 June 2024 DWF provided financial support to assist with the ongoing monitoring of Bilby populations and feral animal control within the 25 square kilometre predator fence located within the Currawinya National Park in southwestern Queensland.