WWF-Australia and Black Cockatoos
 WWF-Australia has instigated and supported on-ground conservation projects for black cockatoos around Australia, with an increasing focus in recent years on the white-tailed black cockatoos of Southwest Australia.
WWF-Australia is currently focusing on a campaign for the protection of habitat for black cockatoos across the rapidly expanding Perth metropolitan area. We are also lobbying for an orchard netting assistance scheme to help protect black cockatoos from the threat of illegal shooting.
Carnaby’s and Baudin’s black cockatoos are only found in the internationally recognised biodiversity hotspot known as the Southwest Australia Ecoregion, an area as biologically important as the Amazon, the Galapagos or the Great Barrier Reef. Black cockatoos are well-loved birds, emblematic of the State of WA and together, these species’ range extends over a large part of the Ecoregion, making them ideal conservation ‘flagships’ to represent the fauna and flora of this area.
 The President of WWF-Australia, Dr Denis Saunders, is one of the world’s leading experts on Carnaby’s cockatoos, having studied this species extensively from the late 1960s.
From 2007-2009 WWF managed the Birds Australia Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project, a multi-faceted initiative incorporating on-ground habitat protection and management, research, education and awareness-raising. WWF has recently handed back the project management role to Birds Australia but remains heavily involved with the strategic direction of the project as a member of the Project Advisory Group.
You can read more about WWF’s work on black cockatoos on our WA Blog: http://futuremakers.com.au/category/wa/
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