Policy failure and conservation paralysis for the critically endangered swift parrot
Matthew H. Webb
A B , Dejan Stojanovic A and Robert Heinsohn A
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A Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
B Corresponding author. Email: matthew.webb@anu.edu.au
Pacific Conservation Biology 25(2) 116-123 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC18020
Submitted: 7 February 2018 Accepted: 20 May 2018 Published: 17 July 2018
Journal compilation © CSIRO 2018 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND
Abstract
The critically endangered swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) is among the best studied Australian threatened species. Despite extensive outreach to the public and policy makers, conservation management has not kept pace with advances in knowledge and scientific evidence. Here we summarise policy and management failings that allow swift parrot breeding habitat in Tasmanian forests to continue to be logged. This practice continues in spite of extensive evidence demonstrating that the cessation of logging of swift parrot breeding habitat in Tasmania is urgently required to secure the species.
Additional keywords: conservation policy, forestry, Tasmania
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