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Bangalow Koalas Inc is a community group formed in 2016 to protect the village's unique koala population. What started as a handful of concerned neighbours determined to prevent a 400-metre stretch of 30-year-old koala food trees from deteriorating or being forcibly removed, has grown into and active, change-creating community group with over 100 members led by President Linda Sparrow.

Bangalow Koalas is a registered environmental organisation, not-for-profit charity which has completed 34 plantings on 28 properties, planting just under 55,000 koala and rainforest trees in 28 months.

As a result, the corridor has already expanded and connected existing sections of koala habitat from Byron Bay and surrounds, acros the hinterland out towards Repentance Creek and is now heading further westward to Tenterfield and south towards Grafton