Campaigners celebrate end of Isle of Dogs bird cull

Monk parakeet (Myopsitta monachus) Photo: J.I.Padilha 2011Campaigners trying to save a colony of monk parakeets on the Isle of Dogs are celebrating victory after Tower Hamlets Council agreed to stop all culling activity in the borough.

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The prisoners who have their very own jailbirds: Convicts buying budgies, canaries and parrots to keep them company in cells

A parrot sits on the hand of a prisoner participating in the "Correctional Bird Project" at the Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, South Africa.

More than 80 inmates at HMP Isle of Wight have been sold the birds for just £5 each

Ministry of Justice says allowing prisoners to have the pets provides them with an interes

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Waiting for the Orange-bellied Parrot

Orange bellied parrot. Image by Debbie LustigThere's some intense bird watching going on in Tasmania's far south west as the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrots begin returning for the breeding season.

Wildlife Biologist Mark Holdsworth from the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment has just returned from Melaleuca and here he tells Penny Terry what it's been like.

The wild budgies of Billabong

There has been some good rain in the Murchison recently and nature is putting on a show in response.

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Fears for cockatoo food stocks in Nannup

Black cockatoos are in danger of becoming wiped out. Image by Michaela NewmanFEARS for three species of endangered black cockatoos have arisen over plans to log an area of Helms forest block near Nannup.

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