Birds starved to death

Updated on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:52 by
City Parrots
Updated on Friday, January 6, 2012 at 0:01 by
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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.
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.