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  2. Orange-bellied parrot - Wikipedia

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    The orange-bellied parrot earned the wrath of Victorian premier Jeff Kennett in the 1990s. A proposed relocation of the Coode Island chemical storage facility to a location near Point Wilson, Victoria was jeopardised by the potential impacts upon orange-bellied parrot habitat. Mr Kennett described this species as a 'trumped-up corella'.

  3. Carpenter Rocks Conservation Park - Wikipedia

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    The park protects significant habitat for the Orange-bellied Parrot (Neophema chrysogaster), which is critically endangered at a national level. This important threatened species was recorded more regularly at the Carpenter Rocks site than at any other site in South Australia during the 1980s and early 1990s.

  4. Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park - Wikipedia

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    In 2017 Moonlit Sanctuary won the Premier's Sustainability Award for Environmental Protection for their Orange-bellied Parrot Breeding for Recovery program. In 2018 Moonlit Sanctuary won the Victorian Tourism Award for Tourism Attraction as well as Ecotourism. [8] Subsequently, they won Silver for Ecotourism at the 2018 Australian Tourism ...

  5. Ex situ conservation - Wikipedia

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    The Orange-bellied parrot, with a wild population of 14 birds as of early February 2017, [15] are being bred in a captive breeding program. The captive population consists of around 300 birds. The captive population consists of around 300 birds.

  6. Butchers Gap Conservation Park - Wikipedia

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    The park is recognised as suitable habitat for the endangered orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster), which has been observed feeding on two-horned searocket (Cakile maritima) near the beach and in the extensive samphire habitat around Salt Lake. [3] The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area. [3] [1]

  7. Threatened fauna of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Based on the list of Australian animals extinct in the Holocene, about 33 mammals (27 from the mainland, including the thylacine), 24 birds (three from the mainland), one reptile, and three frog species or subspecies are strongly believed to have become extinct in Australia during the Holocene epoch.

  8. Southwest National Park - Wikipedia

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    However, more pertinently the park is an important habitat to several species, including the orange-bellied parrot (Neophema Chrysogaster) and freshwater fish Pedder galaxias (Galaxias pedderensis), that are listed as critically endangered and extinct in the wild respectively under both Australian Commonwealth and Tasmanian legislation.

  9. Lavinia State Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The state reserve provides saltmarsh feeding habitat for orange-bellied parrots on their migration route between south-west Tasmania and southern Victoria The state reserve encompasses a significant portion of the northeastern coast of the island, stretching from Lake Martha Lavinia and Penny's Lagoon in the north to the Sea Elephant River ...