In response to the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 which resulted in the injury and death of an estimated 6 billion animals, Great Eastern Ranges (GER) and WWF-Australia launched Cores, Corridors and Koalas - a project to restore and connect critical habitat for forest-dependent native animals.

Through the collaboration, GER and its regional partners have been rolling out a series of coordinated, complementary projects to restore and relink forest habitat and support the movement of wildlife in multiple landscapes across eastern Australia.

In the Kanangra-Boyd to Wyangala Link, a major natural connection between the sandstone cliffs of the Greater Blue Mountains and Wyangala Dam in New South Wales, GER's regional partner, K2W Link Inc, has been running a broad suite of CCK activities. These include:

• Working with landholders to protect, connect and regenerate habitats on their properties.
• Supporting First Nations groups to work on country and share traditional knowledge and practice.
• Research gliding possums to track their recovery post the 2019-20 bushfires.
• Build landholder capacity through seed collection, plant propagation and other workshops
• Educate local school children about some of the wildlife with which they share their homes
• Install high tech boxes to replace lost hollow homes for animals such as sugar gliders.