Supporting Koala Habitats

Creating safer habitat for local koalas

The group’s goal is to create a wildlife corridor connecting existing areas of koala habitat and food trees across the Mornington Peninsula. By planting within existing koala corridors, the project aims to encourage koalas away from urban areas and the many threats they may face there.

These projects are helping improve local koala habitat by providing:

• More koala food trees, including manna gum, swamp gum and narrow-leaf peppermint
• Increased canopy cover to provide protection during inclement weather and periods of extreme heat
• Larger habitats to support breeding populations
• More local native vegetation, including shrubs and groundcovers that provide understorey protection as koalas move between trees

More than 40,000 trees, shrubs and grasses have been planted, predominantly on private properties, as well as in public areas managed by various authorities.

Supporting the propagation team

We have supported the group’s dedicated propagation team with Scotts Osmocote^® Native Potting Mix. This support has helped the team produce more than 10,000 seedlings for tree giveaways, social days, community planting events and other local activities.

The propagation team focuses on growing several locally important eucalypt species:

• Eucalyptus ovata
• Eucalyptus obliqua
• Eucalyptus radiata
• Eucalyptus viminalis subsp. pryoriana

Through habitat restoration, community planting and the protection of existing vegetation, Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation is working to connect remaining koala habitats and support the peninsula’s koala population.

To learn more about Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation, get involved or make a donation, visit Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation.