Tweed Shire Council populations and, more importantly, the areas they needed to focus on to connect those populations by developing more habitat. “Using those studies, we started to approach landholders, both public and private, to inform them of the project and work with them to execute the mass tree-planting in the key parts of the landscape,” he says. “A significant part of the project is working with private landholders who’ve got a real keen interest in koala conservation, but who may not have the resources to actually do anything about it.” “So, we would approach them and say, ‘Thank you so much for being involved. We’ll plant a thousand trees in this particular part of your property, and we’ll maintain them for the first 12 months, at which time they’ll get to the point where they’re looking after themselves to a reasonable degree, and you can look after them beyond that.’ The project itself really requires a whole of community response in that regard.” HELPING AN ICONIC SPECIES
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