We are very excited to be working with Dani Crichton and Simon Cherriman of The Recycology Project in 2025 to build and install nest boxes at our planting sites.
In early 2025, Dani and Simon will deliver their popular nest box building workshop, bringing our community together to build nest boxes for black cockatoos from recycled materials. The half day workshop will engage volunteers and members to build large nest boxes using a range of recycled materials such as timber offcuts and scrap metal.
The Recycology Project is a small family business based in the Perth Hills. Their environmental education work is inspired by the loss of tree-hollows, the urgent need to protect remaining wildlife habitat, and the growing amount of human waste (landfill) entering our ecosystems.
During planting season, we will install the boxes in the large trees that surround our planting sites. Artificial tree hollows (nest boxes) are important because they provide a temporary habitat for wildlife that normally depends on natural tree hollows, for shelter and raising young. They can be an effective alternative to naturally-formed hollows, which take decades to form.
Large scale land clearing across WA has destroyed thousands of mature trees which would have provided natural nesting hollows in the past. While we are working hard to plant trees and native plants to provide our endangered black cockatoos with food and shelter, as we wait for this habitat to grow we need to provide them with an alternative place to roost.
Our Black Cockatoo Christmas Campaign will support the installation of nest boxes - you can donate towards the installation of nest boxes for black cockatoos here.