The swift parrot is one of the world's fastest-declining birds, with welfare and survival critically threatened by continued logging of old-growth forests in Tasmania.
Logging destroys nest tree hollows that take 100+ years to develop, directly eliminating breeding habitat. Sugar glider predation at nest hollows causes severe population-level welfare impacts on breeding females. Food availability on the mainland is declining with eucalyptus flowering patterns shifting under climate change. The species faces near-term extinction without immediate intervention.