But the real innovation came when Lin asked a simple question: "What do they see through the window?" She realized that if the view from the climbing panel showed only more fragmented habitat, the koala would simply climb back down. So the team began orienting the windows toward intact vegetation corridors. They even experimented with scent—smearing eucalyptus oil on the inside rim of the window to suggest that the destination was worthwhile.
A young wildlife ecologist named Dr. Maya Lin was tasked with monitoring the corridor. She placed heat-motion cameras on five signal posts. Over three months, she recorded 147 koala approaches. 119 ended with the koala climbing the post. 12 of those koalas were later struck by trains after descending onto the tracks. koala windows
The results were astonishing. In a two-year trial along a 3-kilometer stretch of rail, koala mortality dropped by 91%. Gliders, possums, and even a goanna were recorded using the windows. The structures required no lighting, no moving parts, no electricity. They worked in drought and flood. But the real innovation came when Lin asked