Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 8:51 
Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) Photo: Nick TalbotIt is the responsibility of the Tasmanian government to ensure the survival of the endangered Swift parrot, federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett says.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:45 
Forestry Tasmania says it is working to protect the parrot's habitat.Forestry Tasmania has rejected a claim it is destroying the habitat of the endangered Swift Parrot.
Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown says thousands of hectares of Tasmanian nesting ground is being destroyed each year in the Wielangta Forest.
Forestry Tasmania says it deferred logging a 68 ha coupe when it became aware that Swift Parrots had decided to nest there.
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 15:12 
Endangered: The swift parrot. ONE of Australia's rarest and fastest birds, the swift parrot, seems to be plummeting in number, and logging has been blamed.
Lathamus discolor - Swift Parrot | in Conservation Monday, October 20, 2008 at 13:47 
Swift parrot. Image by lizardstomp
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should intervene personally to save an endangered species of parrot from extinction, the Australian Greens say.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 11:44 
Swift Parrots are endangered. There are estimated to be only about a thousand breeding pairs left in the wild. This one was part of a group of twenty or thirty that have stopped for a couple of weeks in Canberra on their way back to their summer breeding grounds in Tasmania.Image by Leo
Tasmania has deferred logging an area important for the breeding of the endangered swift parrot.
