Wild Wielangta

A casual visitor to Fortescue Bay might be mistaken to think our beautiful swift parrots are in abundance.
Any camper staying in the Mill Creek Campsite will be lucky enough to be greeted early each morning by a cacophony of happy and excitable swift parrots with the characteristic high pitched clinks and budgerigar-like chirruping. In fact [...]

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The number of Forestry Tasmania cars collected at the Wielangta turn off yesterday, and the nine full cars and minibus that went up the road, bodes well for the interest level in Swift Parrots in Wielangta.
We hope to be able to update you further soon.

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On Sunday 24th August, the first of a series of Threatened Species surveys in Wielangta Forest will occur. The surveys aim to serve three purposes:

to gather much needed additional information about Wielangta’s Threatened Species
to provide an opportunity for as many people as possible to experience this area for themselves
to continue to pressure the [...]

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Mount Nelson resident, Andrew Hingston, is the lucky first person to catch a glimpse of endangered Swift Parrots as they return to Tasmania to breed this year. Andrew saw two of the parrots in trees around Mt Nelson Primary School last weekend and six birds were seen yesterday. Andrew is an Honorary Research Associate at [...]

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Hello Everyone,
The picnic-walk into the proposed logging coupe 19D on July 19 was a great success, and it’s hoped that those of you who came along enjoyed the day. With the Mercury reporting an attendance of around 250, and TV news coverage on all channels, it certainly got the word out that people are [...]

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