ReHabitat

21/05/2026

The seedlings are still small, but the Pods are getting used.

Birds on the rim, skinks in the shade, spiderwebs inside, insects in the cardboard.

Plant Pods are habitat units. The seedling is one resident. 🌳🐦‍⬛🐞

18/05/2026

15/05/2026

Two magpies on two Plant Pods, warbling together.
Sounds like a parent and it’s young. The seedlings inside have had barely any time to grow. The magpies don’t seem to mind.
Habitat now.🐦‍⬛ Tree later. 🌳

01/05/2026

A few more species we’ve spotted using ReHabitat Pods 🐾

Following on from our recent numbat post, here are three more from the same set of trials — all camera trap captures from sanctuaries managed by .

These are feral-free sites where threatened mammals have been reintroduced as part of long-term recovery programs, so while we weren’t specifically expecting these animals, it’s a real pleasure to see them turning up on our cameras:

→ Red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura) — small carnivorous marsupial

→ Shark Bay bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) — Australia’s smallest bandicoot, ~200g

→ Banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) — apparently very keen on eating the pods rather than sheltering in them 😅

It’s lovely to see the Pods being put to use by exactly the kinds of species these sanctuaries exist to recover.
AWC wrote about the trials — link in our bio (or search “Innovative wildlife homes” on australianwildlife.org)🔗

24/04/2026

Come along on a deployment.

Flat-packed cardboard.
Assembled on-site.
Placed into a landscape with no cover left.

From there, we wait and watch.

Wildlife moves through.
Uses it.
Finds cover where there wasn’t any.

Then slowly, things change again.
Plants return. Structure builds.

And the pods?
They’re designed to disappear.

Thick greenery re-covers the site.
ReHabitat Pods: covering the danger gap, and then getting out of the way.

16/04/2026

Numbats (Myrmecobius fasciatus) are an endangered small native Australian marsupial. They eat ants and termites, are active during the day (which is super unusual for a small mammal!), and a really cool species to see!

We were pretty thrilled to see them using ReHabitat Pods deployed by Australian Wildlife Conservancy in an attempt to improve monitoring outcomes for reintroduced small native mammals in some of their sanctuaries.

Predators like cats and foxes are fenced out of these sanctuaries, so they’re not a problem. But curious and boisterous bettongs can get in the way of monitoring efforts out of sheer enthusiasm! That’s why the largest holes on these pods were blocked up (to stop larger bodied bettongs from getting in there).

Nevertheless, these numbats liked what they saw and were not deterred! Australian Wildlife Conservancy captured these cool images (among many more!) and kindly shared them with us.

You can read more about this project here: https://www.australianwildlife.org/news-and-resources/press-release/innovative-wildlife-homes-deployed-in-search-for-camera-shy

Or reach out to us with your questions! 🦘

09/04/2026

We designed the ReHabitat Plant Pod to do something that plastic tree guards can’t - provide habitat.

The brief included small mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates. Plain cardboard that breaks down slowly, creating shelter and foraging opportunities as it goes. Zero plastic. Nothing left behind at the end of a revegetation project.

What we didn’t specifically design for was birds. Yet, since deploying plant pods in the field, we’ve recorded nine native species at our site on Macquarie University campus. Crimson and eastern rosellas, sulphur-crested cockatoos, kookaburras magpies, currawongs, masked lapwings, white ibis, and even some ducks.

Many of the perching species seem to appreciate the elevated horizontal structure provided by the Plant Pods. We have yet to see a single bird perched on a plastic tree guard.

When you design with wildlife habitat in mind, nature tends to expand on your ideas.

ReHabitat Plant Pods. Biodegradable, flat-pack, plastic-free. With inbuilt wildlife habitat. Reach out via our website (link in bio) if you think these could be a good fit for your next or project.

08/04/2026

Habitat Heros 🤩

We recently gave away ReHabitat Pods to the winners of our Spring Quenda Count.

Anita was one of our winners and has set up the pod on her property.

"I was so pleased to win the quenda pod, and have now placed it in a part of the garden which the quendas frequent. This is an area where there is less cover, as they move between sections of the garden," said Anita.

The Land for Wildlife program empowers landholders to protect and restore natural areas and watercourses on their properties. Private land plays a crucial role in preserving wildlife habitat. You can learn more about the program on our website.

02/04/2026

After fire, the ground layer is gone.

That means exposure. Visibility = vulnerability.

These pod clusters add instant ground-level structure — breaking line of sight and creating places to duck out of view.

We’re seeing wallabies, bandicoots and possums moving through and around them.

We’re also seeing foxes and cats moving through these post-fire landscapes, looking for prey.

Which is exactly why this matters.

It’s not just about which animals are using the pods.
It’s about how adding pods alters the risk dynamics of the post-fire landscape.

Levelling the playing field for our native animals.

26/03/2026

Camera traps don’t lie — small mammals are using ReHabitat Pods exactly the way we hoped when we designed them.

After a fire or a flood, ground-dwelling fauna are left without refuge. These images are why we built ReHabitat.

Biodegradable cardboard. Refuges for wildlife.

🔗 rehabitat.au

17/03/2026

After bushfires, people want to help.
But often don’t know how.

We’ve seen something powerful happen when they’re given a way in.

Community build days.
People getting their hands dirty.
Kids, volunteers, locals — all part of the process.

Not just restoring habitat…
but restoring a sense of agency.

We’ve even seen plant pods painted in bright colours — turning restoration into something visible, shared, and sparking conversations.

Because helping wildlife
can also help people.