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      Community-powered conservation

      The Keep Carnaby’s Flying – Ngoolarks Forever project is science-informed and community-powered.

      In the project’s ignition stage (2022-24) we worked with local governments, environmental and wildlife NGOs and Aboriginal organisations to undertake community engagement for black cockatoo conservation across Perth. Over two years, we produced eight individual, data-informed black cockatoo Conservation Action Plans for local government authorities, to help councils identify how best to protect black cockatoos and their foraging and roost habitat. We installed bird waterers and undertook revegetation with black cockatoo food trees, to help iconic, endangered, much-loved Ngoolarks (Carnaby’s cockatoos) survive in our city.

      Our aim is for the project to continue to engage the community to ‘keep Carnaby’s flying’ and safeguard their future, by giving the birds more food trees, water and habitat in Perth and beyond. We hope the project’s collaborations among local governments, NGOs and Friends of Bushland groups will continue, with ongoing revegetation to provide new Carnaby’s cockatoo food and habitat every year. We hope also to develop black cockatoo Conservation Action Plans for more local governments.

      We hope that this project’s collaborations among local governments, NGOs and Friends of Bushland groups will continue beyond the project’s lifetime, with ongoing revegetation and rewilding activities to provide new Carnaby’s cockatoo food and habitat every year.

      Showcasing important priorities

      Our initial two-year ignition project was supported by Lotterywest. The project aligns with Lotterywest’s priority of Protected Sustainable Ecosystems, helping Perth become a viable ecosystem to protect and sustain Ngoolarks. As well, the community revegetation actions that we undertook aligned with Lotterywest’s priorities of Inclusive Thriving Community and Active Healthy People.

       

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      What we are doing

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      If you would like to know more about black cockatoos and how you can help them, please contact us.


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      Check our videos to see the latest on our project team in action, or learn about the science behind our most recent research and activities.

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      Black Cockatoo Crisis Documentary

      Watch Jane Hammond's award-winning documentary Black Cockatoo Crisis, now streaming on SBS On Demand.

      Ngala Kwop Biddi

      We acknowledge that Murdoch University is situated on the lands of the Whadjuk and Binjareb Noongar people. We pay our respects to their enduring and dynamic culture and the leadership of Noongar elders past and present. The boodjar (country) on which Murdoch University is located has, for thousands of years, been a place of learning. We at Murdoch University are proud to continue this long tradition.

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