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Let’s stop Tasmania’s swift parrots going the way of the dodo

4/2/2015

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​You might have seen recently that swift parrots – little green parrots that migrate between mainland south east Australia and Tasmania – are headed for extinction. In modelling published in Biological Conservation, my colleagues and I found that these parrots could be all but gone within 16 years, largely through being eaten by sugar gliders.
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    Rob Heinsohn is a Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Biology at the Australian National University

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