More than 25,000 eucalyptus seedlings grown at Forestry Corporation of NSW’s Grafton nursery were delivered to Port Macquarie Koala Hospital today to support community tree-planting projects designed to increase koala habitat.

The Grafton Cycle club joined forces with Forestry Corporation of NSW for a Clean Up Australia Day event in Bom Bom State Forest last Sunday.

A joint monitoring program has shown a healthy Booroolong frog (Litoria booroolongensis) population in Essington State Forest near Oberon.

The world’s first koala sniffer dog visited Royal Camp State Forest on the NSW North Coast to track and survey the local koala population. Oscar the Labrador searched 100 hectares of forest over four days.

Pristine picnic areas, walking trails with spectacular vistas and world-class recreation facilities have helped Forestry Corporation win a string of tourism awards this month, and catapulted Strickland State Forest into the Hunter and Central Coast Tourism Hall of Fame.