SAVE

SWIFT

PARROTS

End native forest logging

The issue

Critically Endangered Swift parrots are the fastest parrot on Earth. They only breed in Tasmania’s native forests. At severe risk of extinction as logging in their breeding habitat continues.

In 2015 the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the Swift parrot as critically endangered and recommended that all public lands that support Swift parrots be placed under secure, permanent conservation management. This has not happened.

Solutions to secure the survival of the Swift parrot

Solution 1.

Immediate end to native forest logging and secure protection of all Tasmania’s native forests on public land.

Solution 2.

Immediate end to logging in all Swift parrot habitat.

Solution 3.

Remove all swift parrot habitat from Forestry Tasmania “management”.

Solution 4.

End native forest logging Australia-wide, including in all Swift parrot habitat in NSW, VIC and Tasmania.

Solution 5.

Restore all areas of previously logged Swift parrot habitat.

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Our satellite surveillance revealed that more than 2 250 hectares of Swift parrot core range habitat logged since 2019.

Swift parrots in crisis

The ongoing conservation paralysis

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Map of recently logged & imminently threatened Swift parrot habitat

Our satellite surveillance of logging in Tasmania has revealed that since June 2019, 2,250 hectares of Swift parrot core habitat on public land in Tasmania has been logged.

Tasmania’s government has 9,700 hectares of Swift parrot habtiat on 2022-2024 logging schedule.

Planned Logging Already logged Active logging

Take Action

Help achieve permanent protection across all Swift parrot habitat.

If logging does not stop in Swift parrot breeding and foraging habitat today, the species will go extinct.

The critically endangered Swift parrot will not survive further destruction of these forests.

Prime Minister Albanese & Tasmanian Premier Rockliff need to declare secure, permanent protection across all Swift parrot habitat in Tasmania; in the southern forests, on Bruny Island and the east coast.

A migratory bird, the Swift parrot’s winter-feeding habitat in NSW is also being lost to logging and bushfires.

The Tasmanian, NSW and Federal Governments need to permanently end the logging of Swift parrot habitat and provide secure protection in conservation reserves.

The critically endangered Swift parrot will not survive further destruction of their forest habitat.

Native forest logging is the greatest threat to the Swift parrot.

Swift parrots migrate every year to Tasmania, where it relies on old, hollow-bearing trees for nesting and nearby flowering eucalyptus for foraging.

Peer- reviewed research by Swift parrot scientists has estimated the parrot could be extinct by 2031 on its current course.

Native forest logging in Tasmania has removed much of their breeding and foraging habitat over the last thirty years. Every year the parrots make the trip north to feed for winter or south to breed, they have less and less habitat to return to.

In Tasmania, native forests in the southern forests, on Bruny Island, the eastern tiers, and Wielangta on the east coast are vitally important habitat for the Swift parrot.

Each year the Swift parrot travels to different areas to breed, depending on the flowering source of specific euclaytpus. Their destination changes every year.

Experts maintain that all currently available Swift parrot habitat should be retained and logged areas that have the potential to become habitat be allowed to restore.