There are fewer than 1000 breeding pairs of the world's fastest parrot - the critically endangered swift parrot - left in the wild.
The Gutwein Government is on notice following yesterday’s landmark Federal Court decision on logging threatened species habitat in Victoria.
The Forestry Watch survey report was issued on 20 January this year.
The Hodgman Government’s refusal to protect the swift parrot was front and centre on the national stage during last night’s Four Corners program.
In their ideologically-driven rush to log the State’s native forests, the Liberals are destroying the habitat of the endangered Swift parrot.
In Budget Estimates today Resources Minister, Guy Barnett, confirmed he is unleashing a land clearing bonanza on Tasmania’s public and private land.
The Minister is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks Forestry Tasmania can secure Forest Stewardship Certification under current Liberal policies.
Yesterday, the Federal Government silently moved the swift parrot up to critically endangered status under EPBC.
When the minister got to his feet, I thought he was going to respond but he made no mention of this bird that is in his care.
In 2015, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the swift parrot, the world's fastest parrot, to be critically endangered.