00:02A decade ago, Linda Sparrow dedicated her life to saving koalas.
00:08She co-founded eco-charity Bangalow Koalas to plant food and shelter trees in New South
00:15Wales' Northern Rivers region.
00:17We have a never surrender policy, we're never ever ever going to give up.
00:21If you can't save koalas, you can't save anything.
00:25Plantings across seven shires link patches of isolated habitat to create wildlife havens
00:31and corridors.
00:33So we've grown from just here in Bangalow to heading way out west towards Tenterville way
00:40and we've gone right up to the Queensland border and just down on our way towards Grafton.
00:50Linda says each tree planting event generates calls from new volunteers and landowners and
00:56she keeps lifting her goals.
00:58It worked.
00:58Actually we first started it was 100,000, I'm like no, let's make it 250 and then it was
01:03250, no, let's make it 500,000.
01:08This event though was one of the most significant in ten years.
01:11The planting of the half a millionth tree.
01:14This is such a crucial site because there's a lot of koalas in Possum Creek.
01:18Glenn Wallace who's had 4,000 trees planted by Bangalow koalas was proud it would be on
01:24his land.
01:26Very special that she's decided to do it here, it's pretty important to Linda, she's worked
01:31extremely hard to get there and it's an enormous achievement.
01:33Linda had the honour of planting the half a millionth.
01:48Of course she has a new goal, a million trees by 2030.
01:54That's going to give the koala population in the northern rivers so much hope that they
02:00can survive and thrive here.
02:03And it's actually not just about the koalas as well, it's all the other wildlife we're
02:07planting for glossy black cockatoos and all these other threatened species.
02:11It's hope for the planet and it's also hope for all of us.
02:16Come on Todd!
02:17Whooo!
02:17Come on!
02:19Shut the fuck up!
02:20Beautiful.
02:21After Megurtog
02:226pm
02:2211m
02:23Is
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