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WWF-Australia and Greening Australia, with the help of RAW Group are planting glossy black cockatoo habitat trees - She-oaks, on a farmer's property (Ed Vercoe) down at Carrickalinga, South Australia.

“If we plant it, hopefully they will come” – enticing rare Kangaroo Island glossies back to the mainland

Greening Australia and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia are teaming up to plant more than 19,000 food and nesting trees to entice the glossy...

14 August 2023

A male glossy black-cockatoo in flight= displaying red tail feathers

The eureka moment after tenacious search for rare bird

This image of one of Australia’s rarest cockatoos had conservationists high-fiving in the Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales.

5 July 2022

A pair of Kangaroo Island glossy black-cockatoos in unburnt habitat in Cygnet Park= Kangaroo Island= 2020.

Glossy-black cockatoo census results are in

During the last week of September, staff and volunteers from the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board’s Glossy-black Cockatoo Recovery Program systematically...

6 November 2020

A Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo chick surrounded by eggs in an artificial nest box

Cockatoo chicks hatch among burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island

Glossy black-cockatoo chicks have hatched among burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island, boosting hopes the endangered species can be saved from extinction.

25 May 2020

A Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo in an artificial nest box

Cockatoo sightings bring hope to bushfire-ravaged Kangaroo Island

Endangered glossy-black cockatoos have been spotted nesting in burnt out bushland on Kangaroo Island, giving hope to conservationists who have begun to survey...

9 March 2020

Carnaby's black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) Kings Lynn Rise, Mindarie, Western Australia

WA state government must do more to save the endangered Carnaby’s cockatoo from excessive tree-clearing

WWF-Australia says the WA state government must do more to stop the clearing of pines.

13 April 2018

Rex, female Baudin's preening Chasey, male Carnaby's cockatoo, Kaarakin, Western Australia

Lucky the cockatoo flies free after brush with death

A flock of critically endangered Baudin's black cockatoos, including a young bird named ‘Lucky’, were released back to the wild near Mt Barker.

4 May 2017

Aerial view cleared pine plantations in Gnangara-moore River State Forest. Yanchep= Western Australia= February 2017

WWF & BirdLife send urgent SOS to Fed Environment Minister over Carnaby’s Cockatoos

WWF-Australia and BirdLife Australia have urged Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg to immediately intervene over the continuing loss of food trees...

24 February 2017

Landclearing next to Boondandilla State Forest in Queensland

Legal overhaul well overdue for Australia’s environment

Stronger federal laws are urgently needed to protect Australia’s threatened species and special places like the Great Barrier Reef

14 June 2016

Variety of fish swimming in the Great Barrier Reef= Queensland= Australia

THE DRAFT SCORECARD: Which policies will save threatened species, address climate change and protect the Reef?

With just three weeks to go until polling day, WWF-Australia has called on the major parties to release their full suite of environment policies.

10 June 2016

Both major parties need to step up to prevent extinctions

WWF-Australia has welcomed today’s announcement from Environment Minister Greg Hunt of $5 million to protect a number of threatened animal and plant species in...

5 June 2016

Baudin's black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus baudinii) in flight. Western Australia

Illegal shooting a major threat for Baudin’s black cockatoos

Residents in southwest WA are being asked to report any illegal shooting of endangered black cockatoos

8 April 2016