Ms Lyons said these boxes will be critical shelter for greater gliders, black glossy cockatoos, tree-creeper birds and powerful owls around the Peregian/Weyba, Cooroibah and Cooloola regions. She said the fires had taken its toll on the 300 to 400-year-old trees which contain the large hollows required by these bush creatures which these installations would help address. Alan and Stacey Franks of Hollow Log Homes with a glider box. Hollow Log Homes is the family-run business run by Alan and Stacey Franks along with their daughter Dominique which has created more 45,000 nest boxes. “When we started this 27 years ago there wasn’t a lot of science about hollow-dependent species,” Mr Franks said.