❓ Question regarding pre-burn surveys for endangered cockatoos and the Department's rationale for not conducting them, citing the height of nests and the nature of prescribed burns.
AnsweredQoN 3176Legislative Assembly
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(1) Does the Department of Conservation and Land Management undertake surveys of areas of forest immediately prior to a prescribed burn to determine if endangered cockatoo species are nesting in that section of forest?
(2) If not, why not, considering the endangered status of one species of white-tailed black cockatoo?
(2) If not, why not, considering the endangered status of one species of white-tailed black cockatoo?
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Answered
21 September 2004
Responded by
Minister for the Environment
Response time
27 days
(2) Black cockatoos nest in mature eucalypt trees at, or close to, the canopy level. At these heights nesting birds are not directly affected by prescribed burning operations, as these operations are conducted when fuel loads and/or ambient conditions preclude excessive flame heights. Fire, and in particular prescribed burning, has not been identified as a threatening process to black cockatoos inhabiting the south west forests.
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