Thursday 13 April 2006

Licence to kill parrots: a wind farm anomaly

By Liz Minchin
The Age, Page: 3
Thursday, 13 April 2006

A TASMANIAN wind farm is operating with a licence to kill up to six endangered orange-bellied parrots every two years — the same birds that the Federal Government last week declared must be saved at all costs.

In 2001, then federal environment minister Robert Hill approved the Woolnorth wind farm in north-west Tasmania, along the main flight path for the parrot, with several conditions to protect migrating birds.

Among the conditions was that the wind farm developer had to notify the minister when orange-bellied parrot deaths from collisions with turbines exceeded six in two years.
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1 comments:

GFFG said...

Maybe crossing bluies with OBP's would give us OBP's with a fetish for fruit salads, QLD sun and a higher birth rate? - If the raptors, feral cats, foxes and Bass Strait don't get them first.