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OBPRP News December 2024 Orange-bellied Parrot (OBP) Recovery Program News. Prepared by Kerri Duncan, OBP Recovery Program Coordinator (ZAA), on behalf of the OBP Recovery Team. MELALEUCA RETURNS The OBP Recovery Team is celebrating yet another year of increased return numbers to the Melaleuca breeding site in south-western Tasmania. A total number of 92 returned

Above image: An Orange-bellied Parrot flying in to land at Melaleuca, Tasmania, photographed by
Justin McManus, 2022.

Robert ‘Hank’ Jenkins AM was an internationally recognized expert in threatened species management, possessing extensive experience at the highest levels of government worldwide. His contributions extended from his tenure as a senior administrator with the Australian Federal Department of Environment to his pivotal role representing the Oceania Region on the CITES Animals Committee, where he

🌿Announcing the opening of the Smoky Mouse acclimatisation enclosure 🐭 and launch of the National Threatened Species Institute!

PPC R&B (Priam Psittaculture Centre, Research & Breeding) have successfully bred a second generation of the critically endangered Smoky Mouse Pseudomys fumeus. These native mice are being bred for re-release back into their natural habitat. 🌿

“That a billion animals may die as a result of this summer’s fires has horrified the world. For many conservation biologists and land managers, however, the unprecedented extent and ferocity of the fires has incinerated much more than koalas and their kin. The scale of the destruction has challenged what is fundamentally an optimistic worldview

Conservationists hope release of smoky mice in NSW will help ensure survival of critically endangered species https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-16/endangered-smoky-mouse-released-wild-south-east-nsw/101338246?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web