Corey Peterson Mercury letter
Three months ago, the Hobart City Council cut down a stand of eucalypts used by a threatened species of parrot. Where else in the world would you even see a threatened species in the middle of a city?
Swift destruction
CONGRATULATIONS TO the Tasmanian Conservation Trust on the $26,000 grant to help the endangered Swift parrot. Shame it came a little late to educate the Hobart City Council as they allowed nearly a dozen eucalypts used by foraging Swift parrots (identified by a Tasmanian park ranger) to be cut down a few months ago at Harrington/Melville St corner to make way for a three-storey building. Where else in the world could you have witnessed a threatened species in the middle of a city?
Corey Peterson
West Hobart
