Comic explainer: forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)
- Written by Madeleine De Gabriele, Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
Giant eucalypts play an irreplaceable part in many of Australia’s ecosystems. These towering elders develop hollows, which make them nature’s high-rises, housing everything from endangered squirrel-gliders to lace monitors. Over 300 species of vertebrates in Australia depend on hollows in large...