Endangered cockatoo numbers down by half

Habitat offset does not compensate the habitat distruction these Red-tailed Black cockatoos are faceing. Image by MandaUniversity of Queensland researchers are investigating whether habitat offsets could genuinely compensate for the removal of large old trees, the key feeding habitat for the endangered Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo in south-eastern Australia.
ILLEGALS: A Morawa man fined $4500 for illegal possession of black cockatoos.A MORAWA man has been fined $4500 following the discovery of 14 red-tailed and white-tailed black cockatoos in cages at his Wheatbelt home.
Herbert Edward Kenyon, 59, pleaded guilty in the Geraldton Magistrates Court to unlawful possession of three Carnaby’s white-tailed black cockatoo chicks and 11 red-tailed black cockatoo chicks and adults.