The most heartfelt is the light rail
project where about 800 trees throughout the city will be chopped down to make
way for the project.
One area of mass removal is the
heritage Moreton Bay Fig Trees in Sydney’s eastern suburb of Randwick.
Some of these trees were planted to commemorate the Anzacs and are over 100
years old. Old trees have natural hollows, which take
years to form and are extremely valuable to our nesting local wildlife that
rely on the hollows to raise their young.
One rescue that really brought home to
me the importance of old trees and their hollows was that of some Kookaburras.
Fellow wildlife bird carer Josh Cook
has been on hand to rescue the birds displaced by the felling of the trees in
Randwick. He got a call to go to the local vet and collect an egg and a
couple of day old Kookaburras that had been rescued from the scene.
Over
the next month, with lots of tender, loving care & time Josh miraculously
hand raise them into healthy fully feathered Kookaburras whose futures look
very bright now.
They have been named Alison &
Darley (name of road intersection they were rescued from) & Anzac who was
the ‘real battler” rescued as an egg!
I have been documenting the growth of
these Kookaburras and have released some special prints to help Josh with his $600
a week food bill. The idea arose from a Go Fund me Campaign set up
especially for Josh, which you can read more about it here.
You can view the prints here.
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