Week of action defending Tasmania’s native forests while governments oversee threatened species habitat loss
A protest in Swift Parrot habitat suffering logging remains in place for the second day. The current native forest occupation is in the Eastern Tiers of Tasmania, where a defiant f
SWIFT PARROTS FOUND ON SITE OF MMG’S PROPOSED TARKINE WASTE DUMP
Critically Endangered Swift Parrots were recorded over the last breeding season in the takayna rainforests threatened by MMG’s controversial mine waste dump. A new book and exhib
Premier Rockliff: stop threatening Swift Parrot homes!
Today Bob Brown Foundation protesters dressed as Swift Parrots, alongside a giant swiftie named Lathamus, to stage a vigil outside the offices of Forestry Tasmania. Forestry Tasman
Another four people arrested during protest defending Swift Parrot habitat
Today, fifteen people walked into a logging operation which is destroying the documented habitat of the critically endangered Swift Parrot. Four people were arrested after chaining
Swift Parrots given love and commitment with Valentine’s Day protest
This morning, on Valentine’s Day 2023, fifteen people are showing their commitment to the critically endangered Swift Parrots and their breeding forests by holding a protest in n
Forestry Tasmania continues to smash swift parrot breeding habitat
Forest protesters have returned to Mt Tongatabu forests where Swift Parrot breeding habitat continues to be logged. Bob Brown Foundation forest defenders are back in the southern f
Four arrests as logging in Swift Parrot habitat halted
Michael Montgomery (41), Anne-Louise Hill (30), Darren Harvey (56) and Celeste Bartel (33) were all arrested halting logging in documented Swift Parrot habitat west of Geeveston, T
Logging in Swift Parrot breeding habitat halted by protest
A group of Bob Brown Foundation forest defenders has established a protest to save the Swift parrot today in the southern forests of Tasmania. Critically endangered Swift parrots h
Tasmanian Premier deliberately logging Swift Parrot nesting forest
Tasmania’s Premier Rockliff is deliberately sending the critically endangered Swift Parrot to extinction, environmentalists claim after exposing logging in Tasmania’s south
Conservationists force loggers to abandon Swift Parrot breeding forests
Forestry Tasmania has been forced by conservationists to abandon logging of Swift Parrot breeding forests in Tasmania’s Eastern Tiers. Bob Brown Foundation’s campaigners and ci
