Help plant trees for koalas
Last year, the team at Symbio worked with our industry partners – ANSTO, Wollongong Coal, Veolia, and Benedict Industries – to successfully plant an additional 1750 eucalyptus trees across our seven plantation sites in the Illawarra and southern...
Last year, the team at Symbio worked with our industry partners – ANSTO, Wollongong Coal, Veolia, and Benedict Industries – to successfully plant an additional 1750 eucalyptus trees across our seven plantation sites in the Illawarra and southern Sydney.
These plantations serve as a vital insurance food source for the koalas in our Captive Koala Conservation program to ensure they always receive the freshest, most suitable leaves for their very specialised diet.
Koalas need our help more than ever after the 2019/20 bushfires, when it is believed that close to 70 percent of wild koalas lost their habitat and lives. Our team knows how essential it is to have an insurance food source to help mitigate the threats around the supply of food and to ensure we can maintain our most important work – making sure koalas are around for the future.
Head of Symbio Parks and Gardens Joshua Allen said: “What the public doesn’t see is that we travel out daily to cut fresh leaves for our koalas, and it takes close to 1000 trees to sustainably feed one koala for a whole year.
“With 11 koalas here at Symbio, and more expected later this year due to positive signs of breeding, we are setting an ambitious goal of planting an additional 5000 trees this year.
“This ensures we can always collect the freshest sprouts and the tree is properly managed in a sustainable way.”
If any business with suitable land space is interested in working with us, we would love to hear from you to discuss if your site is suitable. As an added bonus to helping in the conservation of koalas, this project is also sustainable and will help offset your carbon footprint. Each mature tree absorbs about 21kg of carbon per year and over their lifetime upwards of 1 tonne.
