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Tanya Plibersek announced swift parrot plan without showing recovery team who helped develop it (www.theguardian.com)

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The swift parrot recovery plan announced by the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, to mark threatened species day was not actually finalised and had not been shared with the experts who helped to develop it.

Release of the plan was news to the official recovery team for the swift parrot.

"The crux of the issue is the minister put out a media release saying the recovery plan has been released and yet no one on the recovery team had seen it," said Mick Roderick, BirdLife Australia's representative on the recovery team.

Dr Dejan Stojanovic, a conservation scientist at the Australian National University and a swift parrot recovery team member for more than a decade, said a version of the plan had not been circulated for years.

Stojanovic said it was a "Lost opportunity" to develop a plan to end decades of damage from forestry that was "Pushing the swift parrot to extinction".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Treevan

So basically, she said stuff that was not academically challenged and has no real foundation.

Sounds almost political.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Land clearing is the backbone of our economy it seems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Once they had seen it, conservation groups and scientists said the recovery plan released on Thursday contained no meaningful action to address the key threat to the survival of the species: the logging of native forests.

Guardian Australia revealed last year that Tasmanian and federal bureaucrats had pushed for the plan to be changed to remove and play down the scientific evidence that logging was the biggest threat to its survival.

“Despite mountains of evidence that logging in Tasmania is the key threat to swift parrots, this government is trying to scapegoat a tiny possum for its inability to stand up to the forest industry,” Stojanovic said.

Dr Jennifer Sanger, a forest ecologist with advocacy group Tree Projects, said the plan failed to address logging, including in parrot breeding habitat in Tasmania.

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