How farmers are trying to save a $500,000 black market bird from extinction

  • 📰 abcnews
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 31 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 16%
  • Publisher: 83%

Belgique Nouvelles Nouvelles

Belgique Dernières Nouvelles,Belgique Actualités

Fewer than 8,000 glossy black-cockatoos remain in the wild across Australia. In response, a group of farmers are planting trees in their thousands to bring back the species' habitat.

Mid-Lachlan Landcare's Tracee Bourke has been assisting landholders in the area with revegetating farmland.

"It is no use just popping some trees on a farm in the middle of nowhere. You need to be building on the habitat in the range they are already existing in."David Watson, a professor of ecology at Charles Sturt University, has seen firsthand the impact tree planting can have on his 12-acre property near Albury.

"Then one day there it was sitting in a tree next to the kitchen window, a glossy black-cockatoo in a tree that we had planted. "What we have done since settlement is cut down a lot of the habitat, and what is left is little patches that are widely separated."

 

Merci pour votre commentaire. Votre commentaire sera publié après examen.

do you guys ever report the truth

The absolute bias of the ABC on full display today with not a mention of corrupt findings against Dan Andrews government despite it running endless stories about Gladys with no corrupt findings BreakuptheABC

By not allowing wind turbines?

What a click bait title. Your bias is showing again

Nous avons résumé cette actualité afin que vous puissiez la lire rapidement. Si l'actualité vous intéresse, vous pouvez lire le texte intégral ici. Lire la suite:

 /  🏆 5. in BE

Belgique Dernières Nouvelles, Belgique Actualités