Anger ripples across Victoria after discovery in remote forest: 'Ideology gone mad'

With a circumference of 7.32 metres and multiple hollows, the eucalypt had likely towered over the 815-hectare Murrindindi Scenic Reserve for centuries. While the crew documented another 44 hollow-bearing trees felled in the area, spokesperson Jake McKenzie said he was "shocked" that workers had knocked down one so large. And each colony requires at least three hollow-bearing trees within its territory," he told Yahoo. "Every single hollow-bearing tree is important," he said, sharing that hollows only begin to form after a tree has lived for a century. Need for burn in remote forest questionedProfessor Lindenmayer does not accept that prescribed burns are needed around the Murrindindi Scenic Reserve.