How is restoration different to koala habitat protection?
While koala habitat restoration is all about restoring lost habitat, as well as creating new habitat to link restored areas together in a koala wildlife corridor, koala habitat protection works to protect and preserve what currently exists.
For example, under the NSW Koala Strategy, the NSW Government is investing more than $20 million over five years to permanently protect 7000 hectares of koala habitat on private land.
Given the fact that loss of habitat is the largest threat facing Australia’s koalas, both koala habitat restoration and protection are vital.
Bangalow Koalas is well-established in the habitat creation and restoration field – we’ve planted more than 410,000 trees since 2019. But what you might not know is that our roots are in koala habitat protection. Bangalow Koalas was actually formed in 2016 when a group of concerned neighbours were determined to save a 400-metre stretch of 30-year-old koala food trees in Bangalow, a town in Northern NSW just up the road from Byron Bay.
Today, Bangalow Koalas is on a mission to plant 500,000 trees by 2025 because habitat saves koalas, and planting trees creates habitat.