Habitat: Backyard Biodiversity Tip Two
The second in a series of ten tips to improve biodiversity in your backyard, small or big!
This beauty isn’t just a dead tree, it’s a sustainable, slow-built, high-rise apartment building for wildlife. In this tree we have observed countless birds, including endangered species, mammals including possums and gliders, reptiles like tree snakes and bearded dragons and various insects and arachnids. Many people have suggested that we cut it down, but why would we destroy such a superb habitat that actively contributes to our backyard biodiversity?
If you want a greater range of biodiversity in your backyard, big or small, you need to provide habitat for the creatures you are hoping to have living in your garden rooms. The National Geographic tells us¹ that organisms need four things for a successful habitat, water, food, shelter and space. The habitats you can provide depend on the space that you have.
The options range from those that can be used on a balcony to solutions for large gardens and acreage:
· Frog Hotels,
· Native Bee Hotels for Megachile species,
· Native Bee Hotels for Reed bees,
