Wildlife photographer arrested in Tasmanian forest where swift parrot habitat is being logged

Rob Blakers says he was surprised then furious' that trees in foraging and feeding habitat for birds, whose numbers are down to just 750, were being destroyed

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Rob Blakers has been a landscape and wildlife photographer in Tasmania for more than four decades. He specialises in taking the time to capture images deep within the state's wilderness that others won't, or can't.

Last summer he spent time in the Eastern Tiers, about two hours' drive north-east of Hobart, climbing trees to take photos of the critically endangered swift parrot. In one shot he took a still of 12 birds in one tree. He estimates there were about 30 - about 4% of the estimated remaining wild population - nesting and feeding in the area.