What is a koala wildlife corridor?
A good thing to know about koalas is that, while they are tree-dwelling mammals, they typically climb down to the ground to move between trees – which they like to do a lot, particularly between dusk and dawn.
A koala wildlife corridor makes this easier and safer for koalas to do, while providing a valuable and much-needed food source at the same time. This is because, as the name suggests it’s a corridor made up of trees, connecting once-fragmented patches of habitat with newly planted stretches of foliage.
In NSW’s Northern Rivers, Bangalow Koalas has already planted more than 410,000 trees across 114 different properties to create a koala wildlife corridor. We plant eucalypts which are native to the local environment – because koala food trees in the Northern Rivers can be quite different from those in other parts of the country – as well as rainforest and other native species trees, including banksia and grevillea, to help form habitat for other species, too.
And we’re delighted to say that there are signs our efforts are already helping our local koala population.