Donate Backyard Solutions Habitat The issue • An area of land roughly the size of Melbourne is cleared every day • 4.5 million hectares of tree cover, equivalent to 4 times the size of Sydney, were lost between 2001 and 2018 • In Australia, there has been a 30% loss of habitat for birds What you can do • Plant native vegetation • Add logs and rocks in your garden How it will contribute • Planting trees will provide new habitat for wildlife to survive • Planting trees will increase the plant cover which produces the oxygen we breathe • Adding logs and rocks in your garden will provide habitat for wildlife to shelter particularly insects