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‘We Love Giving Back’

PROTECTING OUR WILDLIFE

For the past 30 years, lifelong volunteer Joanne Bain has been rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing koalas in her Moreton Bay area home.

The selfless Queenslander is a 24-hour volunteer at Pine Rivers Koala Care, alongside her husband Gary.

“I have always loved our wildlife and helping them. Originally, I was only a carer of common species, but through a friend who was involved with koalas I started helping her,”

Joanne says. “Unfortunately, my husband had to spend a lot of time in hospital and I

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