How’s this Canberra, all that pine forest will soon be housing, wedged between the arboretum and the restoration project at Barrer Hillpic.twitter.com/1uTJmpp2A3
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Someone will stand here in ten years time, look at the hills in he background and see housing. Where they’re standing will be a precious bit of parkland in the suburbs of Coombs, Denman Prospect and Coppins Crossing.pic.twitter.com/kiorP8D9Tw
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This is the stump of a 400-year-old tree, older than Canberra, and it weighs 8 tonnes alone. It was cut up because a branch fell on a someone’s fence in Tuggeranong.pic.twitter.com/G5nuhf1fl9
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But on Barrer Hill there’s several of these disused utility poles that have been turned into homes for native birds, bats, insects and reptiles.pic.twitter.com/YMAo1lWl8h
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This sculpture is aptly called “Life Support”, it’s made up of that 400-year-old tree from before, which means it had been standing before Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay.pic.twitter.com/S8DrvTMxvX
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