Parrot's endangered list nomination threatens wind farms.


A submission to list the orange-bellied parrot as critically endangered, could put an end to wind farms in Tasmania, South Australia and Victoria.
The federal Department of Environment and Heritage has nominated the parrot based on a report into bird collisions with wind farms.
A report by Biosis Research last December found that without wind farms, the parrot has a very high chance of becoming extinct in 50 years.
The report suggests that any increase in parrot deaths, however small, could wipe out the species.
Based on this research, the Federal Government wants to list the parrot as critically endangered.
Tasmanian Conservation Trust spokesman Alistair Graham says this would jeopardise future wind farms.
"If it's critically endangered governments are expected by law to be a lot more precautionary about how they deal with developments and policy implementation where this particular species is concerned," he said.
"If ever anyone wanted to rehabilitate the idea of a wind farm at Tamar or on the West Coast it would be much harder to do."
Public comment on the nomination closes next Monday.
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