Protect the swift parrot

The swift parrot is one of the fastest birds on Earth. But they’re fast running out of time.

There are roughly 750 swift parrots left in the wild, making them critically endangered.

The forests of Lutruwita / Tasmania are the only place on Earth where swift parrots breed. Yet some of their most important nesting habitat is still being logged by the Tasmanian government.

Now, the Federal Environment Minister wants to hand responsibility for protecting the swift parrot to the same state government that's allowing this logging to continue.

The Albanese government promised zero new …

The swift parrot is one of the fastest birds on Earth. But they’re fast running out of time.

There are roughly 750 swift parrots left in the wild, making them critically endangered.

The forests of Lutruwita / Tasmania are the only place on Earth where swift parrots breed. Yet some of their most important nesting habitat is still being logged by the Tasmanian government.

Now, the Federal Environment Minister wants to hand responsibility for protecting the swift parrot to the same state government that's allowing this logging to continue.

The Albanese government promised zero new extinctions through stronger national environment laws. The swift parrot is a real test of that promise.

Protecting this species means protecting the forests they depend on—from Lutruwita / Tasmania to Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Threatened species aren’t contained by state borders. But they are protected by national law.

So why is the federal government trying to hand approval powers to Tasmania? Email Minister Watt today telling him that swift parrots need national protections.

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Help stop Australia's next extinction: tell Minister Murray Watt not to hand swift parrot protections to the Tasmanian government.

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Dear Minister Watt, Mr Phil Alcorn, and Ilse Kiessling,

I am emailing you regarding the lack of national protection for swift parrots and the proposed plan to hand decision making powers on destructive logging to the Tasmanian government.

If the Albanese government is serious about protecting threatened species, this is what the swift parrot actually needs:

1. Revise the National Recovery Plan before the RFA exemption ends.
Before the exemption sunsets on 1 July 2027, the plan must be rewritten to mandate an end to all logging, roading and harvesting in critical habitat, and use updated breeding and foraging habitat maps based on the latest citizen science and monitoring data. The Federal Government also needs to properly fund and resource the Swift Parrot Recovery Team so the plan actually gets implemented, not just published.

2. Issue a Swift Parrot Protection Statement.
 A statement that clearly defines critical breeding and foraging habitat and states, in plain terms, that logging degrading or clearing it is an unacceptable impact that must never be approved

3. Don't accredit Tasmania's forestry system as-is.
No bilateral agreement or approval powers should be handed to Tasmania unless it locks in enforceable conditions banning logging in swift parrot habitat—and unless Tasmania first reforms its own laws, wood supply agreements and habitat maps to match. Handing over approval powers to a system that's already failing the species isn't "streamlining," it's outsourcing extinction.

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