BLACK COCKATOO CRISIS PG Australia 2023 74 mins

5pm Sunday 26 Feb 2023

Denmark Civic Centre (doors open 4.30pm)

Black Cockatoo Crisis is a feature length documentary film project that includes a comprehensive social impact campaign aimed at moving audiences to action and pushing for change.

Q&A Panel : It will be followed by a Q&A session with Ms Hammond, Jess Beckerling, Paddy Cullen from the Save the Black Cockatoo Campaign and local environmentalists, Melissa Howe and Donald Clarke

The project grew out of an earlier film project the director and producer Jane Hammond had made in 2020 called Cry of the Forests. That independent film was complimented by an intense social impact campaign that urged audiences to lobby their members of parliament to end native forest logging. The WA Forest Alliance was the film’s impact partner and coordinated the campaign. Ten months after the release of the film the WA Labor Government committed to end all native forest logging by 2024.

Jane Hamond has again teamed up with the WA Forest Alliance to present Black Cockatoo Crisis and the team has been joined by the Wilderness Society.

While native forest logging will grind to a halt at the end of 2023, strip mining the northern jarrah forest and other critical black cockatoo habitat is continuing and expanding.

There is much that citizens can do to save these precious birds, such as planting cockatoo friendly trees and shrubs to visiting local members of parliament to voice their concerns. Joining your local landcare or urban bushland group is an another key way you can help protect these birds.

The black cockatoo is a much loved species and together we can turn the current race to extinction into a race to replant, rewild, preserve and protect.

Kindly supported by:

Denmark Community Resource Centre (our auspice body) | Denmark Environment Centre | Denmark Arts | Denmark Bulletin.