Following news that many rare and endangered Swift Parrots have arrived for the nesting season at Wielangta Forest in South East Tasmania, Forestry Tasmania's Bob Gordon has declared a one year stay of logging.

The heart of the forest the Swift Parrots have returned to - coupe 19D at Wielangta - would have been destroyed last year if Mr Gordon's hand had not been stopped by Senator Brown's Federal Court action.

The Swift Parrot migrates to the mainland for winter and crosses Bass Strait, in just three hours, to nest in Tasmania each spring.

Senator Bob Brown personally funded a High Court case challenge to the EPBC Act, in order to highlight the threat to endangered species such as the Swift parrot, that logging poses. While the court case was lost the threat continues.

Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has the survival of these marvellous little parrots squarely on his shoulders. The Commonwealth has the power to immediately overturn the Regional Forest Agreement if the Tasmanian authorities proceed with logging at Wielangta, or in other Swift Parrot nesting forests in South East Tasmania.

You can help with the campaign to protect Australia's endangered species, contact your local MP and ask them to take action for our native fauna and flora.

For background on the Wielangta Court case see: http://www.on-trial.info

Watch Senator Brown speak about the arrival of Swift Parrots to Wielangta.

Listen to Senator Brown talk about Wielangta.

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