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farming opportunities can facilitate Koala habitat restoration. Already 90,000 trees have been planted over 100 hectares across seven sites in South East Queensland. The Queensland government has also invested more than $7.5 million into the South East Queensland Wildlife Hospital Network since it was established in 2016. The 2021–22 budget commits a further $6 million over four years and $1.5 million per annum to ongoing support for the South East Queensland Wildlife Hospital Network.
The Queensland Government's direction for the conservation and habitat protection of the listed Koala is detailed in the South East Queensland Koala Conservation Strategy 2020–2025. This strategy establishes a vision to halt the decline of Koala populations in the wild in South East Queensland. The strategy has been built around six action areas for habitat protection and restoration, threat management, improved mapping monitoring research and reporting, community engagement, and partnerships and strategic coordination. It was guided by the findings of the 2017 Koala Expert Panel report.
Key targets have been developed to track progress against the vision, including stabilising Koala populations in South East Queensland, securing a net gain in Koala habitat, restoring Koala habitat and introducing threat reduction programs. A number of the actions in the strategy have already commenced, including the development of state-of-the-art Koala habitat mapping for South East Queensland and amendments to the land use planning framework to deliver an increase in both the size and level of protections for Koala habitat in South East Queensland.
A detailed implementation plan and monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement framework is under development in partnership with a range of key delivery partners.

15. Community interests and roles

15.1 Indigenous communities
Indigenous Australians have a relationship with the Koala extending back many thousands of years (section 1.1) and are continuing to lead the management of healthy Koala habitat in many regions of Australia. Their involvement in the decision making and co-design of projects as well as the on-ground implementation of actions set out in this plan will be actively sought. Individuals and groups will be supported to contribute to citizen science, ecological restoration and Koala recovery projects on both traditional owner managed lands and other land tenures.

15.2 Community conservation for the listed Koala
This recovery plan recognises the many small groups and individuals who are committed to conservation of the Koala in their local areas through habitat restoration activities, caring for injured and sick animals in rehabilitation, or involvement in research (citizen science). It outlines actions to support and build capability of these groups. Likewise, representatives of these many groups will be actively sought to be involved in the actions set out in the plan and contribute to the recovery of the listed Koala.

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