18/08/2026
111 new homes for wildlife: hollow creation at South Kipper
Last month our team, alongside the climbing crew from Heartwood Tree Solutions, completed the installation of 111 artificial hollows at South Kipper, a site managed by the Koala Farmland Fund.
Natural hollows are a limiting resource across much of South East Queensland. In Eucalypts they can take well over a century to form, yet they are essential shelter and breeding habitat for possums, gliders, parrots, owls and microbats. Where the natural supply has not kept pace, carved and installed hollows help bridge the gap while the surrounding trees continue to mature.
This was rewarding work. Our arborists worked from both an elevated work platform and on rope, cutting and fitting each hollow to suit the target species and the structure of the host tree. Getting the crew and equipment across the site was a project in itself.
We really enjoy work like this. Improving habitat for the wildlife that depends on hollows is one of the key outcomes we want our arboricultural work to deliver.
Thanks to the Koala Fund Foundation and the team at Heartwood Tree Solutions for a great project.
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