Lucy the koala was rescued from a rural Property 2 years ago suffering from chlamidia a disease common among koalas now she’s a healthy resident living in a tree Corridor a vast network of vegetation planted by volunteers who call themselves bangalow koalas with wildfires habitat loss through logging threatening the koala’s existence these
Corridors are a Lifeline to the iconic mupo preserving their rapidly drinking habitat and protecting them from Human threats Linda Sparrow is the president of bangalow koalas our corridors are actually trying to get them away from humans from cars from dogs all of that sort of stuff so they can safely move
Across the landscape and not have to put up with us humans planted on 119 properties the tree corridors help koalas safely travel distances and find mates and ultimately increase their genetic divers diversity they also provide a safe haven for other species like the endangered glossy black coatu gliders possums and
Wes the group has planted over 336,000 trees since 2019 in the northern Rivers region of New South Wales it plans to reach half a million trees by 2025 it reaches out to Property Owners to see if they’re interested in planting more trees to save koalas Sparrow says
Most of them do want to get involved it’s like a domino effect where all these people all over the northern Rivers want to join our Corridor so they contact us we check and see if it fits so is there koala habitat there or nearby are there koalas nearby and then
We we work on the priority which is the most important properties to do and so it keeps growing as our trees do the activity has also given the locals a sense of community volunteer Lindy stacker has been planting trees for 5 years it’s better than meditation it’s
Better than yoga and not only does it make you feel great it gets the community involved and it gets them aware so that we’re educating people as well koalas bring in an estimated 3.2 billion in tourism dollars from visitors hoping to see them munching on leaves and sitting pretty but conservationists
Fear the species may be extinct in a few decades time a World Wildlife Fund Australia report says koala population have dropped 50% in Queensland and 62% in New South Wales since 2001 for conservationists like Sparrow there’s no time to waste with the task at hand we
Know we have to get these trees in the ground now because if we don’t they could be extinct in 2050 and I can’t imagine a world where there’s no Koalas in the wild so we’re going to do everything we can possibly to make sure that doesn’t happen
An Australian conservation group has been planting vast networks of trees to provide safe passageways for koalas, as their habitat becomes increasingly threatened by wildfires and habitat loss.
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