New national park named Alwal declared on Cape York Peninsula

Carnaby's black cockatoos roost in tall trees, often pines, high in the landscape and close to water sources as well as taller food trees such as banksias. Image by Delia Anthony
Wildlife managers are learning more about the numbers and distribution of the endangered Carnaby's black cockatoo following the results of a survey of nocturnal roost sites across Perth.
This is one of the two Eyre Peninsula yellow-tailed black cockatoo chicks which has been successfully reared in South Australia this year. | Photographer: (Katrina Pobke - DEH)
May 2010: One has been raised on a farming property on the Lower Eyre Peninsula and is the first chick to be reared in the wild since the Black Tuesday bushfires. The second has been raised in captivity at Gorge Wildlife Park in Adelaide.
Katrina Pobke, DEH Threatened Species Officer, said this was a major milestone for the species which had suffered critically low population numbers for several years.