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Monday, 31/01/2011
Bushfires that burnt more than 6000 hectares of bush in the Cape Arid National Park in Western Australia have destroyed part of the habitat of the critically endangered Western Ground Parrot.
Cape Arid was home to around 120 of the parrots, the largest largest remaining population in the world.
Manager of the Department of Environment and Conservation's Esperance office, Klaus Tiedermann, says an unknown number of birds were killed when one of the six cells containing the parrots was destroyed.
"We had to pull the firefighters out because of their safety, so we have lost one of the cells."
The Department of Environment and Conservation estimates there are fewer than 200 of the birds left in the wild.
© Bron http://www.abc.net.au/
Bushfires that burnt more than 6000 hectares of bush in the Cape Arid National Park in Western Australia have destroyed part of the habitat of the critically endangered Western Ground Parrot.
Cape Arid was home to around 120 of the parrots, the largest largest remaining population in the world.
Manager of the Department of Environment and Conservation's Esperance office, Klaus Tiedermann, says an unknown number of birds were killed when one of the six cells containing the parrots was destroyed.
"We had to pull the firefighters out because of their safety, so we have lost one of the cells."
The Department of Environment and Conservation estimates there are fewer than 200 of the birds left in the wild.
© Bron http://www.abc.net.au/
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