The Keep Carnaby’s Flying – Ngoolarks Forever Project is a community empowerment program which will work with local governments, environmental and wildlife-focused NGOs, and Aboriginal organisations to develop black cockatoo Conservation Action Plans for four local government authorities across Perth per year to help guide revegetation activities, protect foraging habitat, roosts and vegetation corridors, install water drinking stations and support the survival of endangered, well-loved Carnaby’s cockatoos in our city.
Ngoolarks are recognised within Noongar Lore as having high cultural significance in connecting family groups. This project will include Aboriginal Elders and Traditional Custodians from the community, and staff of the Winjan Bindjareb Boodja Rangers and Murdoch’s Ngangk Yira Institute for Change.
Keep Carnaby’s Flying – Ngoolarks Forever is funded by our Major Supporter Lotterywest and will be implemented by Murdoch University through the Harry Butler Institute, in partnership with:
- Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Winjan Bindjareb Boodja Rangers
- Birdlife Australia
- Perth NRM
- South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare (SERCUL)
- Peel-Harvey Catchment Council
- Landcare Serpentine-Jarrahdale (Landcare SJ)
- Urban Bushland Council of WA
- Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre
- Perth Zoo
- Curtin University’s Trace and Environmental DNA Laboratory
The Keep Carnaby’s Flying – Ngoolarks Forever website is currently under development, but will be up and running in April 2023 with lots of fascinating information about Ngoolarks and how we can keep them flying. Please visit again then!
In the meantime, if you would like to know more about black cockatoos and how you can help them, please feel free to contact BirdLife’s Black-Cockatoo Project Coordinator Merryn Pryor.