After recent very strong winds I was delighted to find two fallen tree branches. The first was from a South Australian Blue Gum Eucalyptus leucoxylon & the second from a Black Malle Box Eucalyptus porosa. The spot from which the SA Blue Gum branch fell could eventually result in a nesting hollow. The angle formed by the trunk & broken branch of the Black Mallee Box could become a nesting place for, for example, Grey Shrike-thrushes.
After strong winds damage trees it's certainly a long term advantage for a variety of native animals if at all possible the debris is allowed to remain in place rather than "tidied up" & carted to the dump.
Too true Woko. Tidiness is lifelessness in such situations.
I like that, Night Parrot. Tidiness is lifelessness. May I tuck that one away in my hump for future reference?
Here are photos which I overlooked uploading:
By all means Woko. It reminds me of a situation that I think I have described on BIBY forums before. It must be stuck in my craw for me to go on about it.
There is a strip of beach in FNQ between Wonga and the Daintree River where apparently the environment authority does not allow coastal dwellers to landscape the beach or clean up the wood debris washed down by the river, presumably because the natural litter encourages the establishment of shoreline vegetation and also provides habitat for all kinds of critters, including migrating seabirds.
And yet it is common for people to gather the wood and light bonfires on the beach at night, seemingly for no other reason than to watch the sparks fly (Queenslanders are fascinated by their night burn-ups, perhaps they think they serve to keep away wild animals such as bears, wolves and coyotes). Then, in the daytime, the locals move on to the beach with their dirt bikes. That's when I really get angry. I think it shows up a big problem with enforcement.
The enforcement problem is, I suspect, closely related to the problem of ignorance & a culture of exploiting the environment to the fullest extent.