Minister, the Wilderness Society of Tasmania has taken the Forest Practices Authority to court over their failure to protect the swift parrot, following a decision to not declare
Minister, on threatened species, I heard some of the conversation earlier around threatened species and specifically, I want to ask about the swift parrot.
Premier, on your watch, both the swift parrot and the Maugean skate are on the brink of extinction. Both of those species are at that devastating point because your government has
In response to Greens’ questioning about the destruction of Swift Parrot habitat, the Environment Minister did not once mention the critically endangered bird.
You are directly responsible for species listed under the Threatened Species Protection Act. One of those is the critically endangered swift parrot.
Evidence from a Nature journal paper has determined that the critically endangered swift parrot habitat in Tasmania has been destroyed over recent decades due to government policy.
Not surprisingly, the removal of important swift parrot breeding forest has doubled since this government introduced the Rebuilding the Forestry Industry Act in 2014.
I rise tonight to provide the House with a very important research paper from researchers at the Australian National University, published in the journal Nature...
The decision by PWS to clear critical habitat for endangered bird species on Maria Island to build a wastewater treatment plant is astounding and the wrong priority.
The government's committed $2 million a year over four years to threatened species. With 680 threatened species in Tasmania, that works out at just under $3000 a year per species.