We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to secure new strong national nature laws that address the key threat pushing our Critically Endangered Swift Parrot to extinction – habitat destruction by native logging. But we can’t do this without you.
Our Swifties are in crisis – their population has declined by more than 50% since 2011.
The science is clear: save forests to save the Swift Parrot from extinction. But our current national nature laws are failing to protect Australian nature.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to demand strong new laws from the Federal Government, paving the way for our incredible Swifties’ recovery. We also need to expand our targeted conservation efforts across their habitats to combat key threats.
Your donation is crucial. Please give a bird-saving donation today.
can help produce educational resources with guidance on how local communities can protect and recover key feeding and breeding habitats to support Swift Parrots in their area.
can help conduct urgent monitoring throughout the Swift Parrot’s range to understand how they’re using breeding and mainland foraging habitats and target our conservation actions.
can help organise and empower local communities to lobby their Federal MPs to back strong national nature laws.
Your donation will support the most urgent actions needed to save threatened Australian birds.
“For this species to recover and persist, they need high-quality habitat. Native forestry is completely incompatible with the species’ survival and needs to cease entirely.” – Beau Meney, Woodland Bird Project Coordinator
“For this species to recover and persist, they need high-quality habitat. Native forestry is completely incompatible with the species’ survival and needs to cease entirely.”
As you read this, Critically Endangered Swift Parrots are undertaking their epic annual migration of from Tasmania to the mainland, where they will fly thousands of kilometres. But at the same time, native logging is reducing important areas of Swifty habitat to devastated scenes of twisted and shattered timber.
This unconscionable destruction is pushing these incredible birds to extinction – experts predict that at the current rate of population decline there will be less than 100 individual birds alive at the end of decade.
Yet, this is arguably one of the most preventable extinctions. With the help of people like you, who care about about protecting our irreplaceable natural environment for future generations, we can save our majestic Swifty.
“We know exactly what to do. Saving the Swift Parrot isn’t guesswork.” – Mick Roderick, Woodland Bird Recovery Lead
The current laws fall drastically short of the regulations and investment required to stop extinctions. If they worked, then our Swifty would not be in such a dire situation.
We now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix them. We need to ensure that the new laws directly address the key threat facing Swift Parrots – habitat destruction by native logging. And they need to close disastrous loopholes, such as those that allow native logging of threatened species’ habitat to be exempt from Federal environmental protection legislation.
Please donate today to help us mount a powerful public campaign to secure the strong national nature laws needed to save the Swift Parrot.
We’ve been surveying Swift Parrots for nearly 30 years and have the most complete database of Swift Parrot sightings on the mainland. This helps guide our targeted conservation actions – including working with local communities and landholders to protect and restore valuable native habitat and combatting key threats in important breeding and foraging habitats.
But as the Swift Parrot’s population continues to decline rapidly, we need to urgently scale up our work.
It’s now or never for saving our Swifties.
Please give a generous donation today to help power the work required to stop extinctions.
with guidance on how local communities can protect and drive the recovery of key feeding and breeding habitats to support Swift Parrots in their area.
throughout the Swift Parrot’s range to understand how they’re using breeding and mainland foraging habitats and thus target our conservation actions.
to lobby their Federal MPs to back strong national nature laws.
The Critically Endangered Swift Parrot is mostly bright green, with a dark-blue patch on the crown. Breeds in Tasmania and migrates to the mainland for winter.
Public support for strong new nature laws is having a real impact on the progress of these reforms.