Orange-Bellied Parrot expert Mark Holdsworth frustrated by volunteer policy change

Lucy Stone
Updated October 15 2017 - 3:19pm, first published 3:00pm
At risk: The critically endangered Orange-Bellied Parrot may be functionally extinct in the wild if females don't successfully return to Tasmania this migration season, which ends in November. Picture: Supplied
At risk: The critically endangered Orange-Bellied Parrot may be functionally extinct in the wild if females don't successfully return to Tasmania this migration season, which ends in November. Picture: Supplied

A senior researcher and expert in the critically endangered Orange-Bellied Parrot conservation program says volunteer conservationists have been restricted from passing along daily information on the success of the bird’s latest migration back to Tasmania.

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Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone

Local government reporter, The Examiner

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