Fortunately, woodland creatures don’t hire lawyers

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  • This is green washing no matter how you slice it. While it’s an interesting idea, artificial refugia, like bat boxes or these balls, have to be very carefully designed so they don’t have one of these negative outcomes:

    • Act as a trap for the targeted species with regards to predators
    • Kill the target species - often through thermal extremes
    • Just don’t get used by the target species

    There’s some good work about this on (fuck, fine rummaging for paper) Australian quolls

    I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.

    Anyway, artificial refugia should, at best, be viewed as a temporary fix, or a way to layer habitat on the landscape, never a full substitution.