BirdLife Australia in the media: June/July

BirdLife Australia in the media: April/May 2025

Find out more about our bird conservation work around the country with our monthly multimedia round-up.

281 experts call for ban of ‘toxic’ product sold at Coles, Bunnings, Woolworths, Mitre 10 (Yahoo News Australia)

Almost 300 vets, doctors, farmers, scientists and conservationists have signed BirdLife Australia’s open letter urging the nation’s chemical regulator to ban the domestic sale of bird-killing rodent poisons.

Hope for Regent Honeyeater with signs of booming blossoms after NSW rain and floods (ABC Mid North Coast)

After record-breaking flooding across parts of New South Wales, a mass eucalypt budding event could be a silver lining for woodland birds like the Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeater.

The ‘rule’ Aussies must follow if they see one of world’s rarest creatures (Yahoo News Australia) 

BirdLife Australia’s Orange-bellied Parrot Coordinator Ryan Kilgower reminds anyone lucky enough to spot one of the Critically Endangered birds to keep their location private.

Potential risk to Corner Inlet prompts call for Environmental Effects Statement (Sentinel-Times)

BirdLife Australia is concerned that a decommissioning proposal by Esso Australia, the Australian affiliate of US-based oil giant ExxonMobil, will disturb threatened migratory shorebirds and their habitat.

Despite population crashing WA has rejected calls to label Baudin’s Black-Cockatoos as Critically Endangered (The West Australian)

Conservation groups, including BirdLife Australia and BirdLife WA, continue to urge the WA Government to uplist the threatened black-cockatoo to Critically Endangered.

Birds in the media:

• Massive flock of Critically Endangered Swift Parrots seen near Bendigo (ABC Central Victoria)
• The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked (The Conversation Australia)
• Despair over owl deaths as regulator in fourth year of rat bait review (ABC South West WA)
• Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves (The Guardian Australia)
• Lara man fined for disturbing Critically Endangered Fairy Tern habitat (Geelong Advertiser)

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