Wild Wielangta

Protecting Wielangta’s threatened species and diverse native forests

Premier Bartlett’s Swift Parrot initiative is ‘bizarre’.

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Rare and endangered orchids found on proposed Coupe W19D

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Andrew North of North Barker Ecosystem Services, has located many orchids, after a very brief inspection, just off the road in proposed new logging coupe – W19D.
Two of these are of particular significance:

Pterostylis atriola – Snug Greenhood – so named as it was first discovered on Snug Plains only 11 years ago.
This is [...]

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