Tell Tanya Plibersek to fix the Swift Parrot Recovery Plan

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s Swift Parrot Recovery Plan won’t save the Swift Parrot from extinction. 

The  Recovery Plan’s key actions call for all critical habitat be protected EXCEPT for areas managed by forestry (which fall under Regional Forest Agreements or RFAs). 

The Plan identifies native forest logging as a key threat, and logging is even listed as a key threat on the Australian Government’s Swift Parrot website. So why on earth is there an exemption of native forest logging from the key actions?

The Swift Parrot is facing extinction and native forest logging is to blame. Why then are the RFA’s exempt from action in the Recovery Plan?

It is expected there will be fewer than 100 swifites left by the end of the decade, making a mockery of Labor’s promise of “no new extinctions”.

Labor needs to stand up to the logging industry and protect this critically endangered species.

The Recovery Plan must protect all critical Swift Parrot habitat from native forest logging.