Having the endorsement of Piers Verstegan, from the Conservation Council of W.A. is immensely gratifying. This keynote book about Black Cockatoos, their habitat, food, and conservation efforts to save them, is available at Stories My Nana Tells
It is a compelling story of Black Cockatoos, their food, habitat, and community actions to support their long term survival. An essential read for children and parents who care about the future of Western Australia’s iconic wildlife. With wonderful photographs and true stories of campaigns to protect our ancient forests, $5.00 from every sale of this book helps support the #FeedSeedFund for the rescue, and rehabilitation of black cockatoos in the South West of WA at Jamarri in Nannup – Black Cockatoo Refuge.
Are you looking for a worthy cause to donate to before the end of the financial year? As a non-profit organisation, Kaarakin is primarily run off fundraising efforts and kind donations from people just like you! All donations over $2 and tax deductible. Donate via Kaarakin Cockatoo Recovery Centre
Many of our black cockatoos face a life threatening hazard: that of coming to grief on the side of the roads. With increasing loss of habitat, they are often seen feeding and drinking on the side of the road, in the midst of traffic. Because they are such a big bird, they face into and take off into the wind – which sometimes means they fly into traffic instead of away from it.
Winter Warning Campaign
Let’s have a campaign of warning other drivers that the birds are there and get them to slow down as they go by.
Winter is coming! It is a life threatening hazard in more than the Game Of Thrones!
As winter approaches, it gets light later, and dark earlier. If you see the cockatoos on the side of the road ahead of you, put your hazard warning lights on.
As you approach the group of birds, slow down a little. This will alert drivers ahead and behind who are approaching the group of birds to be mindful of them and take care to watch out for them flying off
Credit: Geoffrey Owen – Taken in Underwood Avenue
Cockatoo carers want those injured birds
One Black Cockatoo carer wrote this on her Facebook page:
Crap, this is what I hate…well meaning rescuer keeps a black cocky for over a week after it is hit by a car “It had a bad head wound but its come good, I think its better that you release it. It’s been in a small cage but I think it can fly, it flutters about when other birds come near it”.
F#*K…in what state will this bird come to me in tomorrow morning? In person will she listen to me when I say the best chance a bird has at survival depends not only on severity of injury, but also on how quickly it comes to a qualified carer who can get it to the zoo?
Please let this be a healthy bird, minor injuries that the zoo find have healed correctly, meaning release, not over a week old fractures that are now infected and already healing incorrectly with internal bleeding and a suffering Black Cockatoo.
‘( I just can’t cope with more of that….and having to deal with a well meaning person who has prolonged the suffering of an animal.)”
What is Kaarakin’s experience?
Kaarakin has found that people hang onto the birds until they think that it’s about to die. Then panic! Call the cockatoo rescue people who drop everything to go and pick it up and run it to the zoo, just for it to be euthanized.
They did a trip out to Gidgegannup just like that. The woman had held onto this poor bird for about a week. She was also very hazy about where it had been found.
3 hour round trip for a poor bird that ended up being euthanized. God knows how much pain and stress that bird had gone through in the meantime. She had it in a cage, uncovered, out near the front of the house, by the drive.
What is Kaarakin’s success?
Kaarakin has a long history of success in releasing rescued and rehabilitated black cockatoos back into the bush, as healthy free birds. Not all the stories are sad – many have very happy endings, even if some birds recover from their injuries, but cannot be released.
When we first wrote this in July 2012, there had been a recent release.
NINE Carnaby’s black cockatoos that had passed through Louise Hopper’s loving hands on their way through rehabilitation at Kaarakin were about to fly free.
To them, we said “Good luck, it’s been an absolute pleasure.
To the bonded couple….we hope you find a nest hollow suitable for you and your future chick.
To all the Kaarakin volunteers…be proud and enjoy the moment!”
Supporting the Kaarakin Volunteers
Since then, many more black cockatoos have been successfully returned to the wild. At Stories My Nana Tells, we are passionate about black cockatoos. (just putting that out there, in case you hadn’t noticed!)
If you want to know more about our Black Cockatoos, we recommend Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts? as a very well written, informative book for families and educators. CLICK HERE: Hey Dude!
Tall, strong and with a huge coif of black feathers jutting out over their forehead, male red tailed cockatoos know how to strut their stuff.
This one had broad shoulders and slender hips, which gave him balance and style. His garb was all black with an occasional flash of brilliant red lining his coat tails!
He kept close company with his partner, although she seemed to be showing her age with her speckles of white. Their new offspring was clearly the apple of his eye,
Red Tailed Cockatoos are serious feeders
Red tailed cockatoos are serious feeders, unlike their white tailed Carnaby’s cousins. Those boys lark about, dropping big marri nuts from high in the trees, just for fun.
Kaarak dined well from marri, jarrah, she-oak and snotty gobble on my block.
The sound of their baby’s cry first drew me near and I was delighted to see how many there were. Delighted because we saw them so infrequently. On this day, nine magnificent red-tailed black cockatoos!
My father (Nono, or Bluey) did not share my admiration. He was forever complaining about the mess left behind each time “Elvis” and his friends called by. To me, it was a small price to pay for such exciting company.
Their huge beaks snip off the outer branches laden with nuts, and they draw the caches of fresh seed to their probing tongues. The distinct sound of their eating brought me under their trees. A shower of projectiles sent me away to a safer distance. The Red Tailed Cockatoos are certainly distinctive when it comes to feeding.
Telling husband and wife apart is pretty easy.
From the ground, it was easy to tell husband and wife apart as they flew in. His tail feathers with solid red blocks of colour underneath, and her’s more feminine with dappled stripes of orange/red and black. Moreover, she was not going grey with age, after all!
Her face, crest, shoulders and underbelly are all dappled with yellow specks, the badges of her role as the primary care-giver. Even so, these red tailed cockatoos possibly live to be seventy years old, and more.
It is not easy to identify the young baby bird, because both sexes have barred tails for several years (similar to the female) before the distinctive male colour is evident.
Breeding and hatching their babies.
It was mid-September, and these youngsters were early hatchlings. Most Red Tailed Cockatoos breed every second year and a study (published not long before September 2008) found that slightly more Red-tails are breeding in winter than in summer.
Their nest in the hollows of a marri, jarrah or karri tree, lined with woodchips, will hold one egg (rarely two).
After 29 days or so the diligent parents, who will
• mate for life,
• rarely bond with another bird if they lose their partner and
• reach sexual maturity at four years,
will get their reward. An almost bald baby, sparsely covered with yellow down.
Mother alone will brood the egg, while father forages in the surrounding bush and he returns to feed the female and young in the evening. It will be three months before the chick is in full fledge (has all its flight feathers) and leaves the nest on its awkward first flight.
Their babies are whingers. Truly! Whingers!
If pink and grey galah babies are “squawkers”, then red-tailed black cockatoo babies are “whingers”. For three hours, this juvenile did little else but sit and whinge for attention. With both parents close by, but being busy feeding themselves, it was completely ignored.
After several hours, I was laughing when I discovered that the three fathers had moved to a large tree fifty yards away. In this small flock of nine birds, they had left their wives to take care of the children!
Every father needs to get away from his whinging kid for a while, with his mates!
What do father Red Tailed Cockatoos talk about on a sunny Saturday afternoon in the last weeks of the Australian Football League finals? In 2008, probably the West Coast Eagles or, on the other hand, maybe the Hawthorn Hawks! Were the Hawthorn Hawks still a topic of conversation for them, in 2013? Perhaps the Magpies might rate a mention in 2017. Who knows!
Then, what a racket! At about three in the afternoon, the fathers started feeding their babies. Gum trees were thrashing with big black wings and red tails, and mothers were keeping out of the way. It is rare to see father Red Tailed Cockatoos feeding their chicks. It is even more unusual to see them in a group of three pairs, feeding their babies at the same time.
Where would they nest, these three pairs with their youngsters?
I wondered “where they would nest, these doting pairs with their splaw-footed youngsters?”
They would be nesting in large, old and decaying trees that began growing long before Captain Stirling sailed up the Swan River in 1827. Hollows suitable for black cockatoos do not begin to appear in eucalypts until they are around 150 – 200 years old.
The word Eucalyptus comes from the Greek language. “Eu” means “well” and “kalyptos” means “covered”, which refers to the cap that covers the flower bud. They have no petals, which are fused into the cap. It is shed when the flower is ready to open.
Some of these veteran and stag trees are estimated to be between 300-500 years old and are critical for the long-term survival of our beautiful black cockatoos.
A flock of twenty Red Tailed Black Cockatoos
At another time, we enjoyed the company of a flock of about twenty Forest Red Tailed Black Cockatoos, (FRTBC) (Calyptorhynchus banksii naso), for a week. They had decided our trees were a good place to rest, relax and feed their babies.
The white tailed Carnaby’s cockatoos were usually more prolific, noisy, and seen often. It was a real pleasure to enjoy the presence of the less abundant red tailed cockatoos for those six or seven days.
The litter of gum leaves and small branches soon surrounded our house. Gum nuts dropping on the shed roof provided a musical backdrop for an afternoon of weeding, gardening and bird watching.
The soft screech of young birds, inter-mingled with reassuring mutters from their mothers was a joy to hear. So too was their distinctive ‘kaarak’ as they moved from treetop to treetop.
On the Sunday afternoon I spent watching them, several pots of gerbera – in full spring bloom in my back garden – were neatly beheaded and the flowers devoured.
In one water garden bowl, three water lily flower buds were bobbing just under the surface of the water, before they opened their delicate pink and white petals. It was hilarious to see the ungainly young birds balancing on the edges of the water bowl, threatening to fall face first into the water as they nipped off the buds.
Their loss was a small price to pay for the company of these wonderful, red tailed birds. Like their white tailed cousins, they are partial to some fresh blossom.
Silence on a Sunday Afternoon
One of the most surprising aspects of these gentle giants is their silence – when they wanted to be quiet. A mother and child sat in one tree for about five hours, quietly eating, grooming each other and nuzzling. There was only the occasional twirling descent of a gum leaf to betray their presence.
Gentle calls from tree to tree kept the flock in touch while a soft Sunday afternoon was barely disturbed. Through the binoculars, it was easy to distinguish the males with their glossy black heads; the white speckles of the females, and the pale red-orange on the tails of young birds.
Harvesting Gumnuts and Timber
I often had to remind my “whinging” Dad that if “Elvis’s” families did not harvest their food crops each year, trees top heavy with gumnuts would surely topple over and crash into our house.
My block had some old trees but huge stumps bore testimony to the early settler’s need for timber: furniture, houses, railway lines and bridges. Even our genuine living needs impact on their habitat. We must make reparation to our Eucalypt forests now, to prepare for the future, and by that, I don’t mean the selective thinning undertaken by the FPC.
These red tailed forest cockatoos once were common but because of the destruction of forests, due to logging, mining and farming, their numbers have largely declined. They are almost entirely dependent now upon the publicly owned forests, particularly State Forest, and remnant bushland on the Coastal Plain.
In the forest, continued logging of “old growth” forest seriously threatens their habitat. They are trying to survive by extending their range, but continued clearing of remnant bushland seems to be an overwhelming threat.
Coping with the pressure of drought and fire
The red tail is essentially the cockatoo of the South West Marri and Jarrah forests. Marri is the primary food source for red tailed cockatoos. It is well known they have extended their diet in the suburbs of Perth to include Cape Lilac berries and the nuts of the spotted gum.
There have been two devastating “natural” happenings in recent years, to add to the pressure under which they now live: drought and fire.
Drought: More than 25 per cent of trees across 7000 hectares of jarrah forest in the Perth Hills, Western Australia died after the drought and heatwaves experienced in 2010-11. In the South West Forests, large sections of Jarrah forest were collapsing, due to the drought.
Bushfire: In just the Nannup forest area alone, the fauna were already under significant strain. By December, 2011, as a result of two other major fires in the previous thirteen months, more than 90 000ha has been burnt at high intensities. The red tailed cockatoos food sources were in dire straits from the drought and the fires made it far worse.
Is logging a real issue for Kaarak – our Red Tailed Black Cockatoo?
“The Government’s 2008 cockatoo recovery plan says conservation of feeding and breeding habitats of forest black cockatoos relies on the protection of marri, karri and jarrah habitats,” said Conservation Council of WA spokesman Mr McCarten
Both of these species (Baudin’s and Forest Red Tailed Cockatoos) are dependant on forest habitats, primarily of Marri, Karri and Jarrah, and have suffered substantial population declines due to timber harvesting and clearing for agricultural land use over the last century.
“If we’re clearing marri and jarrah habitat, which we necessarily are by logging, then we’re definitely going to be affecting cockatoo numbers. We’re coming out of a very big drought; the fires have devastated the cockatoos’ habitat, and they’re not doing well.” said McCarten
We must stop logging the old trees the cockatoos need for nesting. Their nesting sites have to be close to their food sources, especially for the new chicks.
Following the freeways to find Cape Lilac berries.
It’s early 2017. For the past ten years, I have watched them move further away from their natural habitat and on to the coastal plain. Their migration from the real South West forests, through the Darling Scarp, and onto the Coastal Plain has followed the major freeways – and the easily secured Cape Lilac berries.
In the mid-west, the primary diet of their wheat belt cousins are the seeds of the Double Gee and other weed seeds, rather than the gumnuts of the forest. The forests are long gone. I wonder how many farmers see them as their friends and are planting trees for food and nesting sites for 230 years hence!
We cannot remain idle and ignore the fate of ‘Kaarak’ – our Red Tailed Cockatoos.
I have idled away many an afternoon, sitting under a Stoneville gum tree, listening to their gentle ‘kaarak’ as the gumnuts fall like spring rain. But I have also slogged through the forests of the South West, where their nesting and food trees are being logged.
With friends, I have petitioned for their future. I have written extensively about their plight, asking Ministers for sanctuary for our wildlife.
“Our native animals need large areas of bushland to forage for food. Each mature cockatoo must eat 100 large marri gum nuts or 1000 small jarrah nuts every day just to survive. A solitary numbat can chew through 10,000 termites in a single day. Now, the combined impacts of logging, land clearing, recent bushfires and last year’s record drought mean that, in many places, there is simply not enough food to go around.
Tiny Phascogale, photographed here by David Patterson, are even more vulnerable to fire than the adult red tailed cockatoos.
Helm’s Forest, near Nannup, is home to a flock of cockatoos rescued and released into the area by the Department of Environment and Conservation. This area is also acting as a temporary refuge for a huge variety of species which escaped from the terrible bushfires of 2011. The refuge is referenced in this report, by WA Forest Alliance.
Our native wildlife, on the ground and in the trees, need sanctuaries.
Our already highly threatened ground dwellers, the numbats, echidna, and tiny marsupials, which survive the logging, are then faced with devastating fires. Fires deliberately lit to clear up the unsellable ‘waste’ timber.”
Pamela Broad photographed this numbat at Warrup, during our bulldozer blockade.
I dream of them gaining sanctuary in places like Helm’s Block, near Nannup, where there will be no more logging. Where they will be free to raise their babies undisturbed by the ravages of bulldozers, chainsaws and clearing fires. A place for numbats and possums, kangaroos and goannas to share a gentle life.
If we continue to log in these beautiful forest areas, then there is a strong chance that we will lose our unique black cockatoos from WA’s skies forever, and those gentle creatures who live under them.
Logging – then and now – around Nannup
It’s true the 1920’s were very good years for logging around Nannup. Then, the logging was not done with bulldozers and chainsaws. Men used crosscut saws and a network of small gauge railways, feeding small mills with high quality trees.
In the forests, I found and photographed the remains of some of these, where the trees were loaded on to the trains. Some of the trees were actually felled to cut the sleepers on site.
True selective logging was practiced with minimal damage to the surrounding environment and there was very little disturbance of the overall habitat.
This is not the case today and now, eighty years later, the science of forests is proving the perceived time frames are deeply flawed. However, forestry practices such as clear felling and 80-year cut rotations may restrict the availability of nest hollows (Saunders & Ingram 1995).
Even worse, soil management science is proving the concept of “slash and burn” to remove surplus tree waste is damaging the environment. The loss of compostable material essential for soil regeneration and strong re-growth was not recognised nor expected. Yet, it is common sense citizen science, rather than being a supposed “fire management” system.
The FPC is failing to carry out its own requirements for habitat protection. They are failing to secure the future of our endangered species in the forest areas around Nannup, Bridgetown, and Greenbushes. I know, because I have seen where and how they are logging. Great, old trees clearly marked as habitat trees for red tailed cockatoos and other wildlife were not to be felled. They now lie abandoned.
My Grandparents and my Mother lived amongst these birds and trees.
I know a lot about this area because I have been there many times. My Grandparents had a property there and their name is historically remembered in Beaton Road. Right in the heart of the forest, where the FPC continues to log.
If you hope to find yourself sitting under a gum tree with your children, and hear a Red Tailed Cockatoo call with a soft “kaarak”, don’t forget this story.
Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts is a call to arms to save our black cockatoos and their habitat.
Saving black cockatoos and our forests go hand in hand.
This book is a call to arms to save our black cockatoos and their habitats.
Education and a community commitment to meeting their needs is the key to the survival of our black cockatoos. Because our black cockatoos are not all the same.
Different cockatoos have different feeding needs and habits.
Red tailed Black Cockatoos and White Tailed Cockatoos have different feeding habits, and as a result, they need a variety of native vegetation to support them. Without conservation of their South West forests, and their feeding ranges on the sandy coastal plains of Western Australia, they will not survive.
In truth, we should not be seeing much of the Forest Red tailed black cockatoos in the metropolitan area – but they are driven here, looking for food. Unlike the inland Redtails, who have learned to eat double gees and provide a service for farmers, they have learned to eat cape lilac seeds. While it seems like a viable alternative for them, in the book we explore why it is not so.
This book is written for children, parents, and teachers. And for those who value our iconic Black Cockatoos.
Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts? is written for children, and their parents and teachers. It is full of fascinating information about native plants and seeds, and how essential they are as food sources for our iconic Western Australian wildlife.
With good explanations of how seeds come to be, and what black cockatoos like to eat, it’s a learning adventure about conservation and nature. Dazzling photographs highlight the text, and make it easy for children of all ages to follow the story.
About Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts?
Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts? introduces children and parents to the world of seeds, plants and black cockatoos in a bright and breezy story, filled with full colour pictures and relevant information.
Recently released as a full colour, glossy book with superb photographs, by Stories My Nana Tells’ author, Lesley Dewar, it is getting rave reviews from parents and educators. It is an immersing adventure through the wonderful world of seeds and trees.
Written in clear, easy to understand prose, the story explores some of the seeds we most commonly find in our back garden and local bush land. In addition, it helps children learn about the biology of plants, through bright pictures and simple text.
This book is a MUST HAVE for parents and teachers.
This book is a MUST HAVE
for parents who want their kids to understand and love our Australian wildlife.
with its questions at the end and links to good websites, it’s perfect for parents who home school.
for teachers who need a high quality resource for class activities.
it’s especially relevant for those who want to know more about our amazing Black Cockatoos and their habitat.
Most of all, while it is educational, it is also fun to read. It will be a source of activities for children of all ages.
It’s an exceptional story – read this review from one of our Mums:
Redtail black cockatoo on blackboy seed spike. Credit Marg Owen
Hi, I’m Kiera! I’m a home schooling mother of four little boys and we are always looking for creative ways to get more out of our “school days”.
I recently read “Dude, who moved my gum nuts” with my 6 year old. What a delightful story. Actually, it’s not really a story, more of an immersing adventure through the wonderful world of seeds and trees.
Written in clear, easy to understand prose, the story explores some of the seeds we most commonly found in our back garden. We were fascinated to learn more about “double gees” and how banksia nuts spread their seeds when they detect smoke!
It explained why we were being pummelled by our neighbour’s tree each time we had a barbecue.
I absolutely adore Stories My Nana tells, and have gone on to read more of their “adventures”.
Published in full colour, with magnificent photographs.
Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts? is published in full colour, with lots of magnificent photographs.
Available in print format as a hard cover book, printed on glossy art paper, and as a downloadable PDF with interactive links, every family can own this book.
Education and Conservation goes hand in hand with Rehabilitation, including financial support.
Your purchase of this book helps support the rehabilitation and release of black cockatoos, in our South West forests.
$AU5.00 from the sale of every copy of this book, “Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts?” is donated to the #FeedSeedFund supporting black cockatoo rescue at 100% Blacks at Jamarri , near Nannup in the South West of WA.
This Black Cockatoo Rescue site is next to Helm’s Forest, near Nannup, where a community campaign saved 250 hectares of old growth forest from logging. That campaign secured a lifetime site for the safe release of rescued black cockatoos – both red tails and white tails.
Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts? calls for conservation and protection for our black cockatoos.
Without vibrant, healthy forests, our native birds and animals cannot thrive. Yet, the opposite is happening. This book is educational, on all fronts.
In the South West forests
In the South West, their shelter and feeding sources in the forests need protection from logging, and the practice of “thinning” Marri. It is done by the Forest Products Commission to create a monoculture of Jarrah. This is counter-productive for feeding our black cockatoos.
100 Marri gumnuts have the same nutritional value as 1000 Jarrah gumnuts, for a black cockatoo, and losing Marri gumnuts is critical for redtails. Now, our Redtail Forest black cockatoos are driven to eat “exotics” like the seeds of the Cape Lilac, in a desperate effort to avoid starvation.
On the coastal plain
Once, Banksia and other native plants were prolific, all along the coastal plain. They provided a healthy diet of flowers and seeds all year round, as different species flowered and went to seed, in turn. Yet, due to constant clearing of bushland, and no overall planning for conservation, our black cockatoos are being pushed closer and closer to extinction.
Community actions are critical in saving both black cockatoos and their habitat.
Forest activists saved over 200 hectares of old growth jarrah forest near Nannup from logging. (2012)
A moratorium on the logging of Helms forest was imposed until the assessment could be done. Nearly half the area which was about to be logged was found to be officially old growth forest. This forest should never have been on the logging list in the first place.
Friends of Underwood Avenue
After the Tingay surveys, The Friends of Underwood Avenue Bushland Inc (FUAB) was formed in 1998. It is to protect Underwood Avenue Bushland in Shenton Park from a housing development proposal put by the University of Western Australia (UWA).
Every time the UWA puts forward a proposal, the FUAB campaigns to keep the public aware of the vulnerability of our Black Cockatoos. Both Carnaby’s and Red Tails alike. They use their Facebook page to engage a strong community response, and ensure State and Federal Governments are compelled to endorse the EPBC Act.
While it seems all is lost, in fact, it is not. Indeed, the opposite can be true:
Forests for Life
Forests For Life have a vision, and a plan, and support Stories My Nana Tells’ in its education of children, parents, and the community at large. As we support them.
Local communities, wildlife, the timber industry, tourism, honey production, water quality, climate, cultural and recreational pursuits, to name but a few: ALL stand to benefit from the Forests for Life Plan. Because ALL rely on the forests for their health and survival. We endorse their plan, and strongly recommend it to you.
Forests for Life features our book Hey Dude! Who Moved My Gumnuts? on their website, in the section under Education and Research. It’s especially relevant in today’s call for better conservation and protection for our black cockatoos.
Education is the key – to saving our Black Cockatoos. The birds, and their habitat.
If we fail to protect the remnant bushland which contains food sources for our Carnaby’s, we will most certainly lose these beautiful birds.
They need the mature Jarrah, Marri, and Tuart trees which provide food, roosts, and nesting hollows in trees around 150 – 200 years old. If we do not protect our forests, we will most certainly lose these iconic birds.
Read about the two-edged sword of pine plantations, and how they can become the saviours of our Black Cockatoos.
Having the endorsement of Piers Verstegan, from the Conservation Council of W.A. is immensely gratifying. This keynote book about Black Cockatoos, their habitat, food, and conservation efforts to save them, is available at Stories My Nana Tells
Kaarakin has a long history of success in releasing rescued and rehabilitated black cockatoos back into the bush, as healthy free birds. Not all the stories are sad – many have very happy endings, even if some birds recover from their injuries, but cannot be released.
Kaarakin has a long history of success in releasing rescued and rehabilitated black cockatoos back into the bush, as healthy free birds. Not all the stories are sad – many have very happy endings, even if some birds recover from their injuries, but cannot be released.
Red tailed cockatoos look just like Elvis.
The litter of gum leaves and small branches soon surrounded our house. Gum nuts dropping on the shed roof provided a musical backdrop for an afternoon of weeding, gardening and bird watching.
Tiny Phascogale, photographed here by David Patterson, are even more vulnerable to fire than the adult red tailed cockatoos.
protection. They are failing to secure the future of our endangered species in the forest areas around Nannup, Bridgetown, and Greenbushes. I know, because I have seen where and how they are logging. Great, old trees clearly marked as habitat trees for red tailed cockatoos and other wildlife were not to be felled. They now lie abandoned.
