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Large old trees are vital for Australian birds. Their long branches and hollows can’t be replaced by saplings

  • Written by Alex Holland, Researcher at Deep Design Lab and PhD Candidate at Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
Large old trees are vital for Australian birds. Their long branches and hollows can’t be replaced by saplingsShutterstock

When we make roads, houses or farmland, we often find large old trees in the way. Our response is often to lop off offending branches or even cut the tree down.

This is a bad idea. The more we learn about large old trees, the more we realise their fundamental importance to birds, mammals, insects, plants and other inhabitants. More...

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