Project Description
Koala population is declining.
Habitat fragmentation impacts koalas as they spend more energy and time moving from one patch to another. In worse scenarios, there is no natural connection between tree patches, so koalas are pushed to cross busy avenues where they are at a high risk of being killed.
Because of this risk, cities in Australia like Brisbane and Moreton Bay are starting to implement “Fauna movement infrastructure”. In Moreton Bay, this infrastructure includes, for example, a ladder-style fauna rope bridge that connects protected bushland canopy habitat or a fauna rope bridge alongside signage and road stencils reconnecting canopy habitat.
Our project proposes a methodology to increase the locations for this fauna movement infrastructure for koalas. We will use citizen science, spatial data, and data science to determine the most suitable locations.