Substantial” and “severe” is how a researcher has described the habitat loss in Tasmania for the critically endangered swift ...

The study, published in journal Scientific Reports, examined maps of east and southeast Tasmania – the only places worldwide ...

Australia has allowed more than a quarter of the breeding range of one of the world’s rarest birds to be disturbed, degraded or deforested since the year 2000. Over the same period, estimates suggest ...

Conservation biologist Giselle Owens. Picture: Supplied. Dr Owens said the future for the swift parrot looked grim. “Habitat loss for the species is going to drive it towards extinction.