The extinction clock is ticking on our black cockatoos. Will we save them in time?
“We often hear about the push of a species to the brink of extinction, but it’s not always easy to grasp what that means.
This film goes straight to the heart and is going to be a critical tool in educating and mobilising the community.”
– Jess Beckerling, WA Forest Alliance
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Director and Producer: Jane Hammond
Narrator: Janine Oxenham
Synopsis:
Western Australia’s iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the southwest of Western Australia could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done to protect their habitats. With the loss of the Banksia Woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain to housing, Carnaby’s black cockatoos face possible starvation.
Meanwhile, Baudin’s black cockatoos are being shot in an unequal battle with orchardists for apple and pear seeds, and forest red-tailed black cockatoos are under threat from declining habitat.
Black Cockatoo Crisis examines the plight of our iconic and endangered black cockatoos and what can be done to save these three species from extinction.
While set in Western Australia, this is a universal story of biodiversity loss and what can be done to reverse the situation.
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