Moo, the orphaned koala, has had a pretty rough start to life.

In September last year, Moo's mother was hit by a car at Waverley Creek in central Queensland, leaving the little joey an orphan.

A passing driver rescued Moo and drove to Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast.

Last week Moo was returned to central Queensland and is currently being rehabilitated in a small enclosure, known as a "koala kindergarten", at Safe Haven animal sanctuary at Mount Larcom.

"She'll learn to eat local leaf here for about six to eight weeks," Safe Haven owner Tina Janssen said.

"And then we'll have a look at her development and then she's off to be released."

Moo is one of many koalas Safe Haven has helped to rehabilitate in recent years, but Ms Janssen wants to do more for the species.

She has begun preparations to build a larger koala kindergarten, which will be 13 metres in length and four metres high.

"[It will be] a very large cage with very tall trees and they develop good muscle structure, they learn to jump from tree to tree," she said.

"The human contact is removed, apart from putting the leaf in, and we get them ready to go out for release."

Preparations are also underway to plant 1,200 koala fodder trees at Safe Haven so that sourcing food for the animals will be easier.

"We have an area mapped out at the moment to put those 1,200 trees in," Ms Janssen said.

"We need to dig the holes and we need to set up irrigation, and it'll be a few years before those trees are able to be cropped for food, but the sooner we get them in the sooner we've got them.

"At the moment we're cutting around the local area and it's very time consuming to be collecting fodder to feed these animals, so the quicker we get this planting in and up and growing, the better."

Ms Janssen said Safe Haven rehabilitated three koalas last year.

She said between July and November was when koalas were more likely to be on the move, putting themselves at risk of being hit by vehicles.