Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos are found only in Western Australia and the City of South Perth is committed to maintaining their metropolitan home.
During the past decade, the City of South Perth has been heavily engaged in the establishment and maintenance of sanctuary areas at Collier Park Golf Course, to provide an enhanced habitat for Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos.
With its tall Pine and Eucalyptus trees, the golf course is one of the largest roosting sites in the Perth metropolitan area for the birds. Therefore, it is important to maintain existing stands of roosting trees and continue to plant new stock to ensure ongoing tree regeneration at the site.
Over a number of years, the City has secured funds from Perth Natural Resource Management (NRM) community grants, as well as Birds Australia, for the implementation of revegetation projects at the course.
These projects continue to build on previous work done on the 91-hectare parcel of land and aim to enhance sanctuary areas and support Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo habitat through revegetation of non-play areas of the course with locally indigenous plant species.
Implementation of these projects involves extensive weed control, planting of native plant stock and pine trees, direct seeding, and smoke water application to the ground to encourage seed bank germination.
As a result, over 40 sanctuary sites have been established and maintained over the past five years to provide food sources and roosting spaces for Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos.
Recently the City has undertaken some additional on-ground works to expand existing sanctuary areas and to create new areas to provide green corridors between sanctuary sites.
The City is committed to providing a high quality habitat for Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoos through ongoing revegetation and maintenance works at Collier Park Golf Course sanctuary areas.
