Residents Fight to Save Tawny Frogmouth Habitat

Channel 9 featured local residents demonstrating to save the Tawny Frogmouth Habitat. Friends of Lorne Parade Reserve (FOLPR) stressed the importance of designing around trees and this 120+ year old ironbark was to be removed for an electrical services shed. Melbourne's foremost expert on tawny frogmouths, an urban ecologist, Dr Marian Weaving stressed that with removal of such trees tawny frogmouths could become locally extinct from the area. As residents we are distraught that this may happen to Lorne Parade Reserve's Tawny Frogmouth Family. We have also been told that when they return and there nesting tree is gone that they will "wail".

FOLPR reject that this 100 year old tree, a haven for our Tawny Frogmouth Family and many other trees are being clear felled from the Reserve by LXRP. Our local Public Reserve is not free land for the Government to take and tick off their ‘BIG BUILD Projects’ list"

Thanks to Yvonne from Surrey Hills Progress Association for organising press and Dr Marian Weaving - this story would not have been possible without her dedicated work.