Carnaby's and Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Project

Carnaby Cockatoo Habitat enhancement continued in South Perth our community volunteers helped to plant 2300 trees to continue our efforts to improve the Perth Metropolitan habitat for this iconic cockatoos.

The trees planted will significantly contribute to the ongoing expansion of Carnaby Cockatoo habitat within Perth and provide the needed habitat for future-proofing.  “It feels great to now I am helping this iconic species and to know we are contributing to its long term survival” volunteer quote from the day

Without the support of our wonderful volunteers and kind supporters,

CVA would not have been able to achieve the important milestones we have to date for the Carnaby’s.  Thank you again for all your amazing support and we appreciate the support into the future.

WA Conservation Volunteers Team

Volunteers hard at work protecting and restoring the native habitat of a much loved icon

 The gregarious Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos was once widespread across the West Australian Wheatbelt. It is now recognised as an endangered species. This wonderful icon has suffered huge reductions in population size - falling by over 50% in just 45 years.

 The Beeliar Regional Park is an ecologically significant reserve in the Perth Metropolitan area providing a vast diversity of native habitat for Carnaby Black Cockatoo’s living within the urban landscape.

 Volunteers again rallied to help Conservation Volunteers Australia further assist the City of Cockburn. Their much valued work made it possible to plant 600 native seedlings in the bush reserve surrounding Bibra Lake. This will significantly contribute to the ongoing expansion of Carnaby Cockatoo habitat within the Beeliar Regional Park.

 Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos face many major challenges, some of these include; the clearance of their feeding and nesting habitat, destruction of nesting hollows and significant rivalry with other species for nesting sites, along with the serious issue of plundering.

 Since European settlement, 56% of its habitat has been cleared, mainly for agriculture. Conservation Volunteers Australia has a long standing and ongoing partnership with the City of Cockburn to revegetate large areas of cleared land surrounding Bibra Lake with the purpose of increasing habitat connectivity within the reserve for our native wildlife.

 The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos have a particularly low rate of breeding and the young birds have an especially long period of relying on the parent birds leaving them vulnerable to sudden changes to their environment.

Without the support of our wonderful volunteers and kind supporters, CVA would not have been able to achieve the important milestones we have to date.

 And with everyone’s ongoing assistance, we can continue to make a difference to our most vulnerable native species.

Thank you again for all your amazing support.

Tristan Duke

State Manager, Western Australia