A plan defined by environmentalists as the last chance to prevent extinction of the Swift Parrot wants 60,000 hectares of Tasmania's public forests protected from logging.
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It comes as the Greens renew calls for a reduced sawlog quota.
In 2020 the Tasmanian government offered protection to 10,000 hectares of land identified as breeding habitat for the parrot, which is managed by Sustainable Timber Tasmania, as part of its Swift Parrot Public Authority Management Agreement (PAMA).
A new report by the Wilderness Society, the Tree Projects and BirdLife Australia found that PAMA only protects 2900 hectares of breeding habitat, and wanted to see both breeding and foraging habitats protected.
Environment Minister Roger Jaensch said he had not seen the plan from environmentalists.
He said reducing a minimum saw log quota was not on the government's agenda, and that significant changes to harvest arrangements concerning parrot habitat had already been made under PAMA.
"We've got a threatened species recovery plan for the swift parrot, we've just allocated a million dollars to implement the next priorities arising from that plan," he said.
"I'm getting advice from my department and threatened species unit on how that money is going to be spent and what the priorities are."
The environmentalists' report said that 69 per cent of the 10,000 hectares that were protected from logging under PAMA was already classed as non-production forests.
"Therefore [it is] already excluded from logging," the report said.
"Swift Parrot experts have recommended that conservation planning should focus on the protection of hollow-bearing mature forest and foraging habitat. The most effective action that can be undertaken to safeguard Swift Parrot populations is to protect as much of its breeding habitat as possible."
The plan put forward would see 60,000 hectares of public forests protected from logging, which would include 40,000 hectares of current breeding habitat and 20,000 of future habitat.
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Tree Project report author Jennifer Sanger said the government rejected Sustainable Timber Tasmania's desire for its quota to be cut by 30 per cent to improve its financial stability.
"If the Tasmanian Government actually listened to STT's advice and implemented the reduction in the logging quota, this would be more than enough to implement the Swift Parrot Protection Plan and adequately protect it's habitat," Dr Sanger said.
Greens environment spokeswoman Rosalie Woodruff said pro logging had pushed the bird to the brink of extinction.
"This parrot's future hinges on the reduction, or removal, of Forestry Tasmania's mandated 137,000 cubic metre annual sawlog target," she said.
"The Protection Plan outlines the swift parrot's seasonal movement between nest sites, which makes preserving east coast blue and black gum forests critical to its survival. Ending the minimal sawlog quota is the only rational response to our climate and biodiversity crisis."
Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said the Greens would push for an end to native forest logging in Tasmania.
"Like we've seen in Western Australia and Victoria. It's the right thing to do for the climate and biodiversity restoration, and it's what needed to protect critically endangered species like the swift parrot."
