Please help Save Our Black Cockatoos

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Two chances to Save the Black Cockatoos with 2 x two-minute actions. Get in before it's too late. The Black cockatoos need us to be their voices!

1. BEFORE TOMORROW, choose 'Assess - Public environmental review' to stop Newmont Gold mine disturbing over 1,500 hectares of Jarrah Forest (this will bring their total to over 8,000 hectares cleared of the world's most biodiverse temperate forest). Link: bit.ly/Newmont-Expansion-EPA 

Comments could include:

• The area is part of the world's most biodiverse temperate forest, which is already threatened with ecological collapse from climate change and mining.

• The forest is home to many species threatened with extinction, including three species of black cockatoos. The Ngloyenok (Carnaby’s black cockatoo), the Ngolak (Baudin’s black cockatoo) and the Karak (Forest red-tailed black cockatoo)

• It can take up to 200 years to grow trees with hollows suitable for black cockatoos to breed. Offsets do not add to the habitat and result only in further decline of endangered species.

2. BEFORE FRIDAY, say 'YES to a Controlled Action' to stop a further 50 hectares of ancient breeding trees being crucial to the survival of the Ngolyenok (Carnaby's black cockatoo). Link: bit.ly/Katanning-Gold-EPBC

Comments could include:

• Eucalyptus woodlands in the Western Australian wheatbelt are a Critically Endangered Ecological Community, listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). Just 6% of this habitat is left in the area and it has an extremely high risk of becoming extinct.

• The Woodlands provide vital habitat for many species to breed, some of which are now threatened with extinction, such as the Ngolyenok (Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo).

• It can take 200 years for the trees to grow big enough for suitable hollows, and they cannot be replaced with a plastic cockatoo tube.

3. Before you forget, tag a friend or three and comment under the post to help with the algorithms, so that more people have an opportunity to comment.

Thank you from Save the Black Cockatoos