September marks Save the Koala Month, with the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) launching the Koala Kiss Project. The project aims to connect the marsupial’s habitat spanning more than 2,500 kilometres.
Acting as a koala ‘atlas’, the Koala Kiss Project will use software to plot locations of koala groups across more than one million square kilometers of land. Once identified, locations will be used by experts to plan and implement regeneration and restoration of the landscapes across Australia.
This will include incentivising landholders to plant koala forests that link fragmented habitats, rebuilding disconnected forest areas to rejoin and expand koala populations.