CORRIDORS FOR CARNABYS
CORRIDORS
FOR
CARNABY'S
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An initiative of the Amazon Right Now Climate Fund
Image credit: Keith Lightbody
Immediate action,
Sustainable outcomes.
The population of Carnaby's Black Cockatoos has more than halved since the 1970s from loss of habitat and food sources due to clearing for farming and development.
The Corridors For Carnaby's program is designed to help save these iconic birds from extinction, by engaging with the community to create the largest restoration corridor in Western Australian history.
Extensive land clearing has severed the link between the Carnabys’ winter feeding areas and summer breeding grounds.
200,000 native Banksia trees will be planted to form a “corridor” across a 10 kilometre stretch of land near Mandurah, providing critical habitat between the land and sea, with plentiful food, water, and nesting sites for the birds.
Amazon Web Services and The University of Western Australia are developing AI-powered technology to detect, identify and count Carnaby's Black Cockatoos.
Coming soon, an app called Carnaby Connect will allow volunteers and West Australians to take part in real-time flock counting by uploading images and video from their smartphone.
Led by celebrity gardener, Sabrina Hahn, the Nuts for Carnaby’s program will see the community turn their own gardens, schools and parks into oases of food for Carnaby's.
Planting over 2,000 fast-growing nut trees, as well as slower-maturing native food sources, will help meet the birds' immediate and longer-term needs. Register your interest in helping at the bottom of the website.
Prof. Kingsley Dixon
Project director and lead scientist
Uwa
Dean Arthurell
Cockatoo conservation and rehabilitation lead
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Kallan Nannup
indigenous program lead
winjan ABORIGINAL
CORPORATION
Dr Karin van der Walt
botanist and
Project COORDINATOR
Uwa
Sabrina Hahn
schools and
community lead
cELEBRITY GARDENER
Matthew Wood
PLANTING OPERATIONS LEAD
NATURAL AREA
MANAGEMENT
Dr Corrine Duncan
community
conservation lead
5 rivers NRM
Dr Tristan Campbell
AI, DRONE AND satellite
DATA LEAD
UWA
Project partnerships:
Building the community
Amazon’s Right Now Climate Fund has invested $3.3 million in the project, and is supporting the AI development.
Coordinating and delivering the project through science-led conservation and restoration outcomes.
Bringing First Nations knowledge to deliver long-term outcomes for Country, and employment for the local community
Community-led conservation programs, stakeholder engagement and on-ground services