{"id":5090,"date":"2020-08-20T06:41:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2020-08-20T06:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:41:31","slug":"comic-explainer-forest-giants-house-thousands-of-animals-so-why-do-we-keep-cutting-them-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/comic-explainer-forest-giants-house-thousands-of-animals-so-why-do-we-keep-cutting-them-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic explainer: forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article is from <\/em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a>. While it was published around 18 months ago, it remains a novel way to present an interesting tale of the history of tree clearing in our region. Madeleine De Gabriele and and Wes Mountain produced the article based on an interview with David Lindenmeyer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giant eucalypts play an irreplaceable part in many of Australia\u2019s ecosystems. These towering elders develop hollows, which make them nature\u2019s high-rises, housing everything from endangered squirrel-gliders to lace monitors. Over 300 species of vertebrates in Australia depend on hollows in large old trees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These \u201cskyscraper trees\u201d can take more than 190 years to grow big enough to play this nesting and denning role, yet developers are cutting them down at an astounding speed. In other places, such as Victoria\u2019s Central Highlands Mountain Ash forests, the history of logging and fire mean that less than 1.2% of the original old-growth forest remains (that supports the highest density of large old hollow trees). And it\u2019s not much better in other parts of our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Lindenmayer explains how these trees form, the role they play \u2013 and how very hard they are to replace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n \n Read more:\n Mountain ash has a regal presence: the tallest flowering plant in the world<\/a>\n <\/strong>\n <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n \n Read more:\n The plan to protect wildlife displaced by the Hume Highway has failed<\/a>\n <\/strong>\n <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sign up to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants: part gardening column, part dispatches from country, entirely Australian.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madeleine De Gabriele, Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment, The Conversation<\/a><\/em> and Wes Mountain<\/a>, Multimedia Editor, The Conversation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article is republished from The Conversation<\/a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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