BRING BACK THE GLOSSIES!

Planting season will soon be upon us, and we are starting this year with a BANG! The Forktree Project has teamed up with Conservation Volunteers Australia to be part of a campaign to encourage endangered Glossy Black Cockatoos to the South Australian mainland, with a large-scale planting of sheoak habitat at Forktree on 26th and 27th June 2021.

An isolated population of glossy black cockatoos lives on Kangaroo Island, but the species has been extinct on the South Australian mainland with no confirmed sightings since the 1970s. The 2020 bushfires on KI had a devastating impact on the KI glossies, making the campaign to re-establish them on the mainland even more pressing.

Glossy black cockatoos feed almost exclusively on Alloscasuarina (sheoak) seeds, hence our sheoak habitat planting weekend of 26th/27th June. We would love to have as many volunteers as possible, so if you are interested, please sign up via the CVA links below:

26th June: https://volunteerportal.conservationvolunteers.com.au/s/makebooking?id=a0r6F00000VUH7IQAX

27th June: https://volunteerportal.conservationvolunteers.com.au/s/makebooking?id=a0r6F00000VUH6zQAH 27th June

For more information please contact Mel Crouch at CVA (email: mcrouch@cva.org.au or phone: 0437 494 016), contact us at hello@theforktreeproject.com, or click below to see the CVA flyer:

NB: The photos of Glossy Black Cockatoos above are not taken at The Forktree Project, but we hope that in time we will be able to take similar photos on site… if you come and help us plant on 26th/27th June!