Logging 'destroying' swift parrot habitat as government delays action

Researchers say failures allowed logging of 25% of old growth forest despite extinction threat

Habitat for the critically endangered swift parrot is being "knowingly destroyed" by logging because of government failures to manage the species' survival, according to research.

Matthew Webb and Dejan Stojanovic, two of the Eureka prize finalists from the Australian National University's difficult bird research group, say governments have stalled on management plans that would protect known feeding and nesting habitat in Tasmania.