Across the nation, koalas are in significant decline due to incremental habitat loss and fragmentation impacting koala health and survival. The Noosa community recognises the urgent need to protect existing habitat and rehabilitate vital wildlife corridors, to ensure the long-term genetic health of our remaining koala populations.
Noosa Landcare has developed a range of public education campaigns and habitat restoration programs to support the health of Noosa’s koala populations. Noosa Koala Connect is a multi-partner initiative that aims to work with local landholders and citizen scientists to help restore priority koala corridors and find koalas in the wild. Using the Wildwatch Noosa app, vital data is then uploaded to the State database for future research and prioritisation. Noosa Landcare can also advise landholders to develop ecologically appropriate restoration plans, undertake habitat protection works, and increase koala habitat through revegetation on their properties.
How you can get involved!
Download the App
Wildwatch Noosa Citizen Science App
Help us protect Noosa’s koalas by recording any koala sightings through the Wildwatch Noosa dashboard – your contribution makes a difference!
Wildwatch Noosa links the Wildwatch Noosa dashboard with the ArcGIS Survey123 App allowing users to fill out a survey that sends the data directly to the Wildwatch database. You can submit observations via a desktop or mobile device, however a mobile device is recommended as it captures GPS locations automatically and can be used even when offline.
The Wildwatch Noosa survey is quick, user-friendly, and designed to streamline your observations:
- Smart features – Questions adapt based on your answers, hiding irrelevant sections. For example:
- Feral species submissions skip health or site details.
- For sick or injured koalas, symptom-related questions appear along with a rescue group contact number (call immediately if needed).
Pick up the Guide
Koala Conservation Information Guide
This comprehensive guide outlines the history of koalas in the Noosa region, their habitat, breeding seasons, how to identify a sick or injured koala and what to do if you find one. As well as information about koala feed trees, the importance of wildlife corridors and how to manage koala habitat on your property.
Read the flip book here or pick up your free copy from our local Hinter Hub store in Pomona.
Check your Eligibility
Wildlife Corridor and Habitat Restoration
Noosa Council, in partnership with Noosa & District Landcare Group, is working to enhance koala habitat on private land by offering restoration assistance to eligible properties. This initiative aims to create vital links between key koala habitats within the Noosa Shire, while also providing ongoing support to landowners in improving koala habitat connectivity.
Selection criteria:
- Project site located on private land within the proposed corridor areas.
- Project involves the implementation of an approved restoration activity.
- Properties that are protected under a covenant such as Nature Refuges or Noosa Council’s Voluntary Conservation Agreement Program properties will be prioritised.
- Properties situated within priority koala corridors will be prioritised.
- To see if your property falls within a mapped corridor see here: Koala Corridor Map
If you think your property might be eligible, click the link below to fill out an expression of interest form and we will be in touch.
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Noosa Landcare has created numerous programs to implement a range of restoration projects of various scales to support the health of Noosa’s koala populations. Below are a snapshot of some of the projects we have completed.
Yurol and Ringtail State Forest Koala Corridor
In 2019, Noosa Parks Association, Noosa Council and Queensland Government’s Department of Environment and Science purchased a timber plantation license of more than 2400ha of state forest in the Noosa Hinterland. The exit of harvesting and the rehabilitation of more than 1100ha of habitat back to its original vegetation type is underway.
Rehabilitation involves natural regeneration and the planting of more than 302,000 native trees, including koala food trees, to recreate the lowland-to-hinterland corridor link. Once rehabilitated, the area will be allocated as national park under the Nature Conservation Act 1992, securing protection and management into the future.
In the first phase of the project, 117ha of former pine plantation was revegetated by our teams, with the help from our community. This gained financial support from the Biobridge Project, a Body Shop UK initiative to help restore ‘bio-bridges’, or wildlife corridors, in damaged landscapes across the globe. This project helps endangered species to reconnect, breed and thrive as well as helping local communities to live more sustainably.
Body Shop Australia further supported the project, by doubling the funds granted by the Biobridge Project, through the sale of Limited Edition Hemp Cream, koala turban head towels and koala headbands over the Christmas season 2018-2019.
Phase two welcomed Greenfleet and the Kabi Kabi Peoples Aboriginal Corporation as valuable partners to the project. Now in stage 4 of the project, our crews have planted approximately 208,991 trees over 522ha of harvested plantation areas. These works started in mid-2020 and will continue to run over four years.
Koala Carbon Habitat Restoration Project
The Dangerbridge property is a 279ha ex-macadamia and cattle farm located along Kin Kin Creek. The property was converted to a nature refuge in 2010, to restore it to its original native ecosystems and to become a safe haven for wildlife within the region, including threatened species like koalas and Richmond Birdwing Butterflies.
In 2021, many of owner Jenifer’s dreams for the property came true with the commencement of the Dangerbridge Nature Refuge Koala Carbon Habitat Restoration Project. In partnership with Greenfleet, Queensland Trust for Nature and the Queensland Government, Noosa Landcare began the transformation of 72ha of bare paddocks into a forest.
The aim of the restoration project is to establish emergent, canopy and understory species to restore natural canopy structure, and to capture carbon. Parallel to this objective is the desire to enhance the quality of the habitat for koalas by increasing koala food tree abundance and supporting koala habitat.
Over a four-year period, Noosa Landcare completed over 76ha of revegetation with 145,727 native tubestock planted. An additional 11ha underwent assisted natural regeneration through targeted weed management.
Planting progress late 2023.
