Students from Tacking Point and Hastings Public schools are learning how to collect gumnuts and propagate koala food trees to future-proof Port Macquarie's koala habitat.
perished in the fires. so we do know that all of the way up the east coast of australia, there were fires affecting koala habitat, including in this area here. on this farm in tintenbar in northern new south wales, the world wildlife fund is helping with a community effort to plant koala food trees on a massive scale. evenjust today, we re planting 9000 koala food and habitat trees, and the cattle have been removed off this property and the landholders are really wanting to see this part of the property restored for the koalas. with more farmers choosing to rehabilitate cleared land, there are hopes that if koalas survive, other wildlife with also thrive. koala habitat is also home to a whole range of other species. so when we protect koala habitat, we re protecting habitat for a lot of different species including a lot of other
perished in the fires. so we do know that all the way up the east coast of australia, there were fires affecting koala habitat, including in this area here. on this farm in tintenbar in northern nsw, the world wildlife fund is helping with a community effort to plant koala food trees on a massive scale. evenjust today, we re planting 9000 koala food and habitat trees and the cattle have been removed from the property and the landholders really want to see this part of the property restored for the koalas. with more farmers choosing to rehabilitate cleared land, there are hopes that if koalas survive, other wildlife with also thrive. koala habitat is also home to a whole range of other species. so when we protect koala habitat, we re protecting habitat for a lot of different species
yes. yeah, yeah. 80%. of the property. and a lot of animal species have moved away, too. we know that over 80% in some areas of the koala habitat has been destroyed and affected by the fires, with over 61,000 koalas estimated to have perished in the fires. so we do know that all the way up the east coast of australia, there were fires affecting koala habitat, including in this area here. on this farm in tintenbar, in northern nsw, the world wildlife fund is helping with a community effort to plant koala food trees on a massive scale. evenjust today, we re planting 9,000 koala food and habitat
evenjust today, we re planting 9000 koala food and habitat trees and the cattle have been removed from the property and the landholders really want to see this part of the property restored for the koalas. with more farmers choosing to rehabilitate cleared land, there are hopes that if koalas survive, other wildlife with also thrive. koala habitat is also home to a whole range of other species. so when we protect koala habitat, we re protecting habitat for a lot of different species including a lot of other threatened species like quolls, or powerful owls, or lyrebirds, or lots of different marsupials like platypus, so by supporting koala habitat, we are protecting habitat for a large range of animals. the gondwana rain forests of australia are amongst the oldest on the planet.