There are 14 wild orange-bellied parrots left – this summer is our last chance to save them
- Written by Rob Heinsohn, Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Biology, Australian National University
When only 14 of any species are left in the wild, you know they are in trouble.
Such is the crisis faced by the last remaining population of orange-bellied parrots in southwest Tasmania. To make matters even worse, very few of these birds are females.
On our trip to southwest Tasmania on Tuesday, we found four nests. We will be returning to the...