The NSW government say it has increased surveillance and boosted biosecurity capacity for H5 bird flu by 'dedicating additional resources to identifying potential cases coupled with an awareness campaign focused on input from the community and the needs of industry'.

Bob Brown Foundation has recorded critically endangered swift parrots across their Tasmanian breeding territory, in multiple forests on the logging schedule, including two nesting pairs of the critically endangered parrots in a forest behind Dover.

This morning, veteran forest defender Ali Alishah has attached himself to the only access gate leading into a sub-alpine forest in the Central Highlands that Forestry Tasmania refers to as BD052A. This forest, near Brady Lake, contains large numbers of Eucalyptus dalrympleana and the critically endangered swift parrot has been documented here.

The legendary environmentalist Bob Brown is calling for urgent action as humanity faces the greatest natural catastrophe in our history, with three quarters of Earth's wildlife now destroyed.

Today in Hobart Magistrates Court, Bob Brown was fined $500 and no conviction was recorded, for defending critically endangered swift parrots and their habitat.

A mass protest in Tasmania’s forests yesterday has resulted in eight community members being arrested.

Failure by Tasmania’s Premier Rockliff to prevent the destruction of swift parrot breeding habitat has been called into question today as protests return to a logging area in the south of Tasmania.

This morning in southern Tasmania, a protest is taking place in the forest habitat of critically endangered swift parrots, where logging has been happening recently.