Bill ‘will protect birds’

Kaarakin wildlife and clinic manager Louise Hopper introduces the Member for East Metropolitan Region Alison Xamon to Jason the cockatoo. MEMBER for East Metropolitan Region Alison Xamon says protecting the remaining forest areas in the State will help protect rare and endangered cockatoos.

The comments came after Ms Xamon attended a Conservation Council of WA meeting earlier this month, which heard from experts on the topic Why WA’s rare and endangered cockatoos are starving.

“It is quite clear that our native cockatoos, in particular the Carnabys, Baudins and Forest Red Tailed Black Cockatoos are under threat and this has been attributed to a combination of land clearing, drought and fire,” she said.

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Forest industry and conservationists debate cockatoo claims

Forest Red-tailed Cockatoo - Male. Image by Sandra WallaceFOREST Industries Federation WA (FIFWA) executive director Bob Pearce has hit out over claims of diminishing food sources in Warrup and Helms by the WA Forest Alliance (WAFA).

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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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Black cockatoos hungry and dying

The Black Cockatoo Preservation Society cares for some 200 birds a year. Photo: Chris PhillipsBlack cockatoos are on a death march north says the chair of the Black Cockatoo Preservation Society.

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Urban cockatoos mask statewide crisis

Carnaby’s Black CockatooThe recent arrival of Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo populations in previously uninhabited parks around Perth’s western suburbs is obscuring the extent to which the critically endangered species is under threat from extinction.

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