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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'.
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 ...
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.
Known from a single skull purchased in 1846. Considered extinct because of predation by feral cats, with habitat destruction by agriculture and livestock farming as possible contributors. [56] Great hopping mouse: Notomys robustus: Davenport and Flinders Ranges, South Australia Known only from skulls taken in old owl roosts. [57] Blue-gray mouse
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.
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.
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]
Continued levels of high quality habitat both for inland waterways and coastal zones is very important for migratory birds that use the area at certain times of the year. An example of this is the orange-bellied parrot which is critically endangered largely due to habitat loss. [12]