I’m sure that this petition will be of interest to all Birding-aussers.
Stephen Ambrose
Ryde NSW
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Dear Supporter,
Western Australia’s endangered black cockatoos are locked in desperate bid for survival and they need our urgent help! Native forest logging, land clearing, fire and drought have devastated their natural food supplies and cockatoos now face starvation in many areas.
http://ccwa.org.au/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4817&qid=745278 Take action to tell the government that our cockatoos are worth saving.
WA’s unique Baudin’s, Forest Red-tailed and Carnaby’s black cockatoos are now being forced far from their forest homes to survive, with many even descending on Perth suburbs in a desperate bid to find food.
With our cockatoo populations already on the brink of collapse, we have just heard some appalling news.
The WA Government are planning to begin logging within weeksin some of the last remaining high-conservation forests in the South-west – areas that have escaped the recent fires, are now a refuge for native species and remain a critical food source for the cockatoos.
http://ccwa.org.au/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4817&qid=745278 Take action to stop this forest destruction and protect critical food sources for black cockatoos.
Dave and Dee Patterson have been caring for endangered cockatoos in the Nannup district of WA’s South-West for the last 25 years. Never, they say, have the cockatoos had it this bad. The Pattersons have been providing supplementary food for wild cockatoos and Dave says he’s seen even the normally shy Forest Red-tails feeding on the ground where they are exposed to predators – something he has never witnessed before.
Normally a mature cockatoo must eat 100 large marri gum nuts or 1,000 small jarrah nuts every day. But declining rainfall and a destructive logging industry means that there is simply not enough to go around.
Now the black cockatoos are in a desperate struggle for survival after an escaped prescribed burn wiped out nearly 100,000 hectares of forest in the region.
One of the few refuges in the area is the Helms forest, which is now home to many of the rehabilitated cockatoos that have been released by Dave and Dee.
We were shocked to find out recently that the Helms forest is one of the next areas in line for logging, Preliminary operations have already begun in the area, with logging due to start any day now. Dave and Dee are beside themselves as they are facing the devastation of this beautiful forest which is now home to so many of the birds they have looked after.
The Helms forest is just one of the high-conservation forest areas in line for logging this year. Other critical areas include the Warrup forest near Bridgetown and the Arcadia forest near Collie.
The good news is the Environment Minister has the power to stop the logging if we can convince him that enough Western Australians oppose the destruction of critical native habitat.
It’s not too late to save our cockatoos!
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