The Australian Government has listed the iconic Tasmanian swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) as critically endangered, lifting its status from endangered, following research by The Australian National University (ANU). Dr Dejan Stojanovic from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society is part of a team that published the 2015 research which found the swift parrot could be extinct in as little as 16 years. He welcomed the reclassification, which he said should provide greater protection for Tasmanian bird. In 2015, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature raised the threat level of swift parrots in response to the new evidence provided by ANU researchers. ANU research predicted the population of the birds will halve every four years, with a possible decline of 94.7 per cent over 16 years.
Source:
Science Daily, 7 May 2016
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160506095713.htm
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