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Regent Honeyeaters released to go wild

Captive-bred Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeaters are being released into the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park by Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner) as part of a national recovery program to curb the species’ decline.

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The noose tightens: Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo

Birds Australia (BirdLife Partner) was recently offered – and declined to accept – $100,000 as part of an offset for the clearance of 258 hectares of Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris habitat near Albany in Western Australia. The land has been proposed to be mined for Magnetite by Grange Resources Limited. Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo numbers have declined [...]

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