Funding for Carnaby’s food protection project

Shire of Moora councillor Arthur Tonkin, Moore Catchment representative Duncan Peter, Member for Moore MLA Grant Woodhams, Minister for Agriculture and Food Terry Redman, deputy chair Moore Catchment Tony White, Moore Catchment executive Helen Watlkins and National’s candidate for Moore Shane LooveTHE $45,000 State Government funding for the protection and preservation of the endangered Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo has been welcomed.

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Carnaby’s cockatoos in the Calinigiri school yard

The day-old chick in the nesting box.CALINGIRI school students will have an opportunity to track the movements of a pair of nesting Carnaby’s cockatoos and their chick in the schoolyard.

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Black cockatoo species survival eked out by further funding

A ‘breed for release’ facility has been constructed for rescued cockatoos unable to return to the wild but still able to breed—allowing for their young to be released into wild populations. Image: Bill & Mark BellBLACK COCKATOOS could be on the verge of a promising revival thanks to the injection of funds from Lotterywest to Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre.

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Scientist says logging no threat to cockatoos

Scientist says logging no threat to cockatoosA WA scientist has added fuel to the debate over logging and its impact on endangered cockatoos as the Government seeks public comment on its draft forest management plan.

In a recent letter to the West Australian newspaper, WA Institute of Foresters chairman John Clarke rejected claims that logging affected Carnaby’s cockatoos, saying they mainly inhabited the coastal plain and Wheatbelt, not forests.

However, WA Museum ornithologist Ron Johnstone confirmed Carnaby’s cockatoos were moving west and south into the forest in search of food and nesting sites.

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Logging back on the election agenda

Fashion designer Liz Davenport with a Carnaby's Black Cockatoo. Picture: Ian MunroActivists who spearheaded a grassroots campaign to protect old-growth forests ahead of the 2001 State election have again vowed to make logging a key issue at the March election.

Environmental campaigners, once again led by Perth fashion designer Liz Davenport, met yesterday to start a hard-hitting campaign against a plan by logging interests to sell up to 800,000 tonnes of native timber a year from South West forests for plywood, paper pulp and biofuel.

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