All the creatures, small and large, they are par of their ecosystem, so they for they are par of me. The best part about the local land services koala project has been working with the amazing landholders, contractors and traditional owners on this beautiful country between Kofs harbour and Port McCquari on Gumbangia, Dungari and Bear Pie Country. They will walk along that and they will also drop a lot of scat as they walk to. The best way to find koalas is to look for their poo and help from the dogs as well. You can help identify koala scat by this lovely shape. They are very rarely jelly bean shaped, so they are often this straight pellet. They are very dense and you can see here very fine material, so there is no bugs or any other seed material. I walk on coast is probably about 2 years ago with the idea of ridge trivialing and regenerating a couple of different forms of forest. One is lowland sub-tropical rainforest, which we're sitting in right now on flood plain. It's a endangered ecological community, so it's worthy of some protection, some pretty emergent protection. But also we're very keen to facilitate the restoration of some wet and dry, scleriful forest, which we have on the back of the property and some rolling hills to the south of where we are at the moment. And the idea behind that was to re-establish some koala habitat. This area of all is once what's known as primary koala habitat, which is the best of koala habitats. But unfortunately it's become over time very fragmented due to agricultural practices. So it's called progression, progress, progress, progress, progress, progress, so much for progress, you know. So in the process of progress we destroy and lose a lot of the land, we lose a lot of the spaces, lose the water-free cutting down the pole. Let's see down, we climb up there, don't get what the koala, the leaf, that's where you get this water. Now we don't get the water on the ground, we get the water from the leaf, yeah. And that's how we survive for the impact of progression, you know. The koala is evolved on this country over the last 40 million years. Perhaps 60 million years, the white fell has been here for only 250 years. And in that time we've probably lost between 50 and 80% of the habitat for the koala. For me the harder issue is a moral dilemma. What right do we have to sit on our hands and watch this beautiful iconic species, note in all around the world, sailing fade away to extinction? We have an obligation to not allow this to happen, but to actually reverse it, to repair country. So the great thing about the project is that it provides an alternative opportunity for people who want to do that a little bit for nature, who want to improve habitat quality across the landscape, who want to improve water quality and scability of riparian zones. It provides them with that opportunity to get assistance from the government to re-vegetate, provide quality habitat for koalas and other case-known species, and to basically feel good about doing their bit for nature. I know that may sound cheesy, but it's coming from me, it feels very, very satisfying. In my own situation I find it extremely workable, one of the most workable things that I've ever done. Some people have said Martin Eur obsessed with koalas, but I like the koala as much as I like every other native animal I'm responsible for. There's a wide range of native animals that will benefit from habitat creation. We embark upon for the benefit of the koala. The beauty of working in private land conservation is that we are supporting not only diverse vegetation types, but also diverse landholder needs and aspirations for their patch. Yeah, in the first night that we said traps, we picked up two foxes, a male and a female, and then on the second night we picked up another two foxes, and we've seen a few cat tracks as well. So, see how this one goes. As much as they're a beautiful animal, they're just not meant to be here. They're just doing too much damage, not only to koalas, but every other small species. So these traps are actually rather jawed, lined. So if you get non-targeted animals, whether domestic or even native, we can release these animals, and you just give there for a little bit of a rubbered massage that will have a soft foot for a couple of days, but there's no breakages. We've recently done a fire management workshop, local land services, or part of the program, bought an indigenous ranger who also spoke about cultural burning. So that was really interesting and something that we can look at in the future if needed. Because the whole idea is protecting these pockets of rainforest and Euclip forest that I've got here to give refuge for the animals. At the end of the day, it is so inspiring to watch landholders be supported to take the next step in koala conservation, and to realise by looking after koala, you're not only helping biodiversity on your block, but you're also increasing the productivity of your land for future generations. So the reason we engaged with local land services is that after the fires have happened, a lot of koalas are now frequented in our area and are spotted throughout the whole of South-West Strox. They've come here because they wanted to find a safe home, and so now they call this place their home. So it's really special that we get to share our home here. It's such a beautiful part of Dungari Country where there are Euclip forest. And that's a part, you know, we say that's a part of our dreaming, not just as Dungari people, but that's a part of our dreaming as the whole of South-West Strox. Now they've come back here, so now it's time for us to protect their home. And we sing a song about Dungi himself. Dungi up your tree, koala come down to me. So that's the song we got in Gumbang, so we got to put that into a lingo, language, language. So, and we've got a lot of connection. It's incredibly enriching to my life in a spiritual sense. I'm an Australian, I have a deep connection to country. I think anyone that is lucky enough to be in this country and is open to world spaces and spends time in world spaces is imbued with that core element that makes the nation's character a connection to country.