ReHabitat

19/06/2026

Plastic and environmental conservation do not go together! Especially considering how few tree guards get collected after they’ve served their purpose…

Once you start looking, you see them everywhere - choking mature trees at the base, crumbling into microplastics, blown or washed away into waterways in storms.

Let’s get the plastic out of tree planting and revegetation projects!

Oh and why not add some instant habitat while we’re at it?!

ReHabitat Pods create habitat now. The trees can take their time.



Have you seen plastic tree guards that have been left on too long?

15/06/2026

Big news! Especially for those in WA...
ReHabitat are now stocked by StrataGreen! So you can skip the eyewatering freight from the east coast if you want to get your hands on some ReHabitat Pods or Plant Pods!

🙌🙌🙌

05/06/2026

Does the habitat have to wait for the trees? No.

A Plant Pod is biodegradable cardboard — like the better tree guards, it won’t become litter. That’s the easy bit.

The structure itself is the point. Walls thick enough to shelter skinks. A rim broad enough for a bird to land on. Shade and substrate from day one.

The seedling sits inside it, protected. The habitat sits around it, functional. Both at once.

In a single trial, camera traps recorded an array of native bird species using Pods as perches. Skinks and invertebrates used the shaded interior and hid inside the layers of cardboard. The fauna didn’t have to wait for the trees to go before they could move in.

Habitat now. Tree later. There’s no need for the site to be empty in between.

28/05/2026

Revegetation isn’t habitat restoration.

We plant trees to bring habitat back — revegetation projects, koala corridors, replacing what’s cleared for development. The assumption underneath: that habitat is instantaneous once the seedlings are in the ground.

But a seedling takes years to become structure. In the meantime, the site is bare ground with sticks in tubes.

Tree guards protect the seedling. That’s their job, and most do it fine. Plastic ones are often left behind to become litter. Biodegradable ones don’t — which is better — but they’re still featureless tubes. None of them are habitat.

So the fauna can’t really move in yet. But does the habitat 🐾 have to wait for the trees 🌳 ?

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! 🦘