Vital Swift Parrot habitat in Tasmania is facing the axe if Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s recently released 3-Year Wood Production Plan goes ahead.
Add your voice to calls to protect Swift Parrot habitat, using our quick and easy tool!
Background:
Key facts about Swift Parrots, and why Tasmania’s forests are vital in helping us save them from extinction.
Swift Parrots are one of only three migratory parrots on Earth!
‘Swifties’ cross Bass Strait each winter to feed on flowering gum trees across south-eastern mainland Australia. But every Summer, the entire population returns to their Tasmanian native old growth forest homes to breed.
According to the recent Action Plan for Australian Birds there are only an estimated 750 Swift Parrots remaining, though recent research by Australian National University suggests there could be as few as 500 Swift Parrots left in the wild.
One of the biggest threats to Swift Parrots, driving their population declines, is native forest logging.
Simply put, the State Government-run Sustainable Timber Tasmania must not allow any logging coupes within important Swift Parrot habitat.
Thankfully, helping Swifties is just as simple!
Use our tool to contact Sustainable Timber Tasmania, and ask them to remove any proposed coupes within important Swift Parrot habitat from the 3-Year Wood Production Plan.
Photo: Swift Parrot by Chris Tzaros
