These photos have been gathered from our Wild Wielangta community members. Rob Blakers kindly agreed to have these fantastic images available to view here.
Select the photos or the centre information icon to see the details. All of these were taken in or near Coupe W19D, which is due to be logged, despite being home to threatened species: the wedgetailed eagle, the stag beetle, the swift parrot and the endangered pterostylis atriola orchid.
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John Courtney
// Oct 4, 2008 at 8:26 am
The Swift Parrot is one of the world’s most beautiful and scientifically valuable parrots. It is a perfect example of evolutionary convergence in action, almost exactly imitating the lorikeets in every way, but not related to them. It is of great value in evolutionary studies, so its preservation is vital. This can only be done by preserving its habitat, both breeding hollows and feeding trees. It is unthinkable for its most vital habitat to be logged.
John Courtney, 1999 recipient of the John Hobbs Memorial Medal of Birds Australia.
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wildwielangta
// Oct 11, 2008 at 11:14 am
John,
Thanks so much for visiting and providing your contribution.
You’ll note the latest is the swifties have a reprieve until after the 2008-9 breeding season…and then they’ll log !
However it’s a little bit more time to build up the numbers.
Let’s hope they have a bumper season
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Let’s hope Forestry Tasmania experiences some ‘evolutionary convergence’ soon!
Cheers Jo
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