We are a coalition of First Nation’s Elders, peak conservation groups, and leading scientists. We are calling on the WA State Government to initiate a Five-Point Plan to save WA’s threatened and endangered Black cockatoos.

Black cockatoos used to live in vast numbers across the South West Australian Global Biodiversity Hotspot, but now all three species are threatened with extinction. Considered messenger birds by many Noongar people, their absence in the landscape is a message that we are failing to ‘Care for Country.’

Over 90% of this area has been cleared or degraded and the expansion of mining, agriculture, houses, and roads continues unabated. Current burning regimes are also devastating their breeding and feeding habitats. In search of food, they have taken to farms where they are sometimes shot as pests and poisoned accidentally by sprays. Large numbers are also hit by vehicles as they feed on spilled grain.

Around Boorloo/Perth the vast majority of one species are now living in the Gnangara Pine Plantation, but this lifeline is disappearing rapidly. Current laws, initiatives and recovery plans are failing to stop their decline, so we are calling for an Emergency Plan co-designed and managed by Traditional Custodians and scientists. Please help us get the message to politicians to ‘Save the Black Cockatoos’.

Members of the coalition include Birdlife Australia, the Conservation Council of WA, the WA Forest Alliance, The Wilderness Society WA and the Urban Bushland Council.