WA Naturalists Club Darling Range Branch monthly meeting.

Simon Cherriman is an award-winning environmental scientist, educator and wildlife filmmaker and an enthusiastic advocate for the unique Australian bush and its creatures. Simon grew up in the Perth Hills and spent his childhood climbing trees, observing birds and learning first hand about the local environment.

Simon describes his talk as follows:
I would like to talk about my upcoming book “Hollowed Out? – a story of tree-hollows, habitat loss and how nest-boxes can help wildlife in south-western Australia.” Release of the e-Book is very close and the print version will follow later this year. For the talk, I would like to delve a bit more into what hollows are, how they form, the different fauna using them, and then discuss some of the nest-box stories from the last 10 years of running ‘The Re-Cyc-Ology Project’, which has focussed on building nest-boxes from recycled materials and installing them in various parts of the landscape, particularly at primary schools.