Wild Wielangta

The recent announcement by Premier Bartlett about planting 2,500 hectares of Blue Gums on the East Coast over the next 5 years, as feeding habitat for endangered Swift Parrots, is bizarre and misguided.
If Swift Parrots are to avoid extinction they need to be able to breed successfully. For this they require forests full of [...]

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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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