Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 16:07 
ANU researcher Dejan Stojanovic is fitting tracking devices to adult swift parrots to see how wide they range for food. ABC Fiona, BlackwoodIt is feared habitat loss across eastern Australia is putting even greater pressure on swift parrot, a bird already on the brink.
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:40
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Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo. Image by Ian AshbaughProtestors have hit out at the City of Canning over plans to fell more than 150 gum trees in Manning Road amid claims they were important foraging habitat for the endangered Carnaby's Black Cockatoo.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 6:12 
Sulfur-crested cockatoos confiscated during the recent bust of an Indonesian bird trader. Photo: Wildlife Conservation SocietyA smuggler using a public bus to transport a veritable aviary of rare birds for the illegal pet trade was recently arrested by Indonesian authorities, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 2:40 
Some of the pine plantations have also been cleared and the remainder are likely to disappear to meet the housing needs of a rapidly-growing capital city. Flickr: Ken and NyettaWA Museum’s ornithology curator says black cockatoos, which once flocked to the Swan Coastal Plain in tens of thousands, could be extinct within 50 years.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 11:14 
GREAT RECEPTION: Limehills School pupils welcome their American penfriend Natalie Shaheen, who raised $3400 for the Kakapo Recovery Programme from her bat mitzvah gifts, at Invercargill Airport yesterday.Donating her bat mitzvah presents to the Kakapo Recovery Programme has resulted in a special trip for Los Angeles girl Natalie Shaheen.
She arrived in Invercargill yesterday to be greeted by a group of penfriends from Limehills School and Kakapo Recovery workers.
Natalie, 13, decided to donate her Jewish coming-of-age presents to the kakapo after falling in love with them aged eight, when she saw a TV documentary about the critically endangered birds.
She asked for donations instead of gifts and sent $3400 to the programme.
Strigops habroptilus - Kakapo | in Conservation 
