Call for North Brooman nature reserve to protect 70-metre-tall ‘Big Spotty’
It is the sort of place where it is difficult to see the “tree” for the forest —…
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Bob Brown Foundation's Doro Babeck says giant trees like #BigSpotty should be celebrated.
"In Europe, we have these old cathedrals that people worship like Notre Dame.
These ancient #giantTrees are the cathedrals of Australia."
#hallelujer to that - and to making North #Brooman State Forest a nature reserve to protect these ancient giant #gumtrees
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-17/big-spotty-spotted-gum-north-brooman-state-forest/106135758
Thought to be 500 years old, a 70-metre-tall spotted gum is almost hidden in the middle of a South Coast state forest. Conservationists want the "world champion" tree and the forest it lives in recognised and celebrated.
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