Tree hollows and fallen logs provide important homes for Australian wildlife, but they're disappearing at an alarming rate.
Trees are essential for native wildlife to find food, shelter, and places to roost and nest. Hollow-bearing trees are especially important because many species use these hollows daily and seasonally to nest and raise their young.
In New South Wales, at least 174 animal species rely on tree hollows, including 46 mammal species, 81 bird species, 31 reptile species, 16 frogs and countless invertebrates. Of these species, 40 are threatened, and the availability of hollow-bearing trees is crucial for their survival.
Tree hollows take hundreds of years to form but are quickly disappearing due to human activities like land clearing. They are not easily replaced. However, we have the opportunity to act and make a difference.
Which Clarence Valley wildlife rely on tree hollows to survive?
- Powerful Owl
- Barking Owl
- Boobook
- Masked Owl
- Sooty Owl
- Barn Owl
- Owlet-Nightjar
- Glossy Black Cockatoo
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Galahs
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- Corellas
- Pardalotes
- Lorikeets
- King Parrots
- Rosellas
- Wood Ducks
- Greater Glider
- Yellow-bellied Glider
- Sugar Glider
- Squirrel Glider
- Feathertail Glider
- Brush-tailed Phascogale
- Brush-tailed Possum
- Bobuck
- Microbats
