04/03/2025
Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo are an iconic Endangered bird. Unfortunately, successive Great Cocky Counts over more than 10 years has shown that these birds are declining at about 10-15 % per year. Lots of conservation works have been completed over the past few decades. This has included fencing off remant vegetation on farms, planting native plants for food, repairing nest hollows and installing hundreds of artificial nest boxes.
Unfortunately during this time there has still been large areas of native bush cleared for mining and housing which has destroyed vast areas of nesting and feeding habitat. Successive governments have prioitised cheap economic development over environmental conservation. Economic development, as with everything in life, isn't an either or. It's time to build our urban areas upwards with more apartments and less urban sprawl. This reduces the constant bull dosing of centuaries old bush land and also reduces the cost of transport for the local population.
