Wild Wielangta

Birds Australia Conservation Manager Chris Tzaros spoke with Fran Kelly on ABC Radio National Breakfast yesterday to highlight the impending threat, to the survival of the Swift Parrot, from logging in Wielangta Forest.
For the past 13 years, a national recovery program involving all the eastern States and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars has been implemented [...]

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A small portion of Coupe W19D and areas close by, in Wielangta Forest, were surveyed by concerned community members in very poor, windy conditions in just a few hours on Sunday 28th September.
Despite the limitations of this survey it is clear that:
• there are known swift parrot nest sites both in Coupe 19D and close [...]

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Remember, this Sunday 28 September 2008 is most likely your last chance to walk in Coupe 19D and see the swift parrots going about their glorious business, and the Federally endangered orchids, undisturbed.
Despite all representations to date, it seems that Forestry Tasmania will be logging this coupe for woodchips any time now and therefore destroying the breeding [...]

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Thank you to all those who attended the recent ‘pot luck’ dinner at Copping Hall. What a great venue, yummy food, convivial atmosphere and fantastic entertainment.
Thanks also to Roslyn Alexander, Guy Turnbull, Mel Hills, Paccy Stronach and Tim Holmes for organising and supporting the event, and to Lisa Cuatt for the encouraging words and ongoing [...]

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An enthusiastic group participated in our first threatened species survey in the Exclusion Zone* in Wielangta Forest on Sunday 24th August.
Vehicles gathered at the locked gate in glorious sunshine and after introductions proceeded though the gate in convoy to the coupe, a drive of 5km or so. The two lucky last vehicles got waylaid by [...]

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