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#SaveSwifties 🦜 The vibrant Swift Parrots of Australia are threatened by logging activities in their nesting sites in Tasmania. Only an estimated 750 Swift Parrots remain, yet forest destruction has continued in their sole breeding sites in eastern Tasmania. A new report shared by bobbrownfoundation highlights the shocking scale of ongoing destruction, despite the recommendation from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species to halt logging of native forests where this Critically Endangered species nests. The Bob Brown Foundation managed to temporarily halt the logging, but now that agreement has passed, the destruction is allowed to continue. The Australian Supreme Court application to prevent further logging in Swift Parrot breeding forests was heard Monday and is under review. The Australian government has promised that it will prevent any new extinctions. As their Supreme Court deliberates this week, we encourage them to uphold their zero extinction commitment. The only way to p...

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