This year me and work colleague Tristan were working in Global Goals together, and we decided to help our environment. We wanted to help our endangered fluffy friends and to teach people how then can help them. To do this we chose to help some birds. We initially chose the black cockatoo but when we found out they only settle in the wheat belt we decided to make bird boxes for another endangered species that nest in the metro area, the ring necked parrot aka the “28 parrot”. We sought out help from someone already dedicated to helping these birds, Simon Cherriman, he sent us a document detailing how to make and put together bird boxes below are some images of Tristan and I making the boxs:

Over the next couple of terms we will, with Simon, host bird box building tutorials and workshops, to help these endangered birds live on, and hopefully this will catch on and help this earth be as biodiverse as ever.

Biodiversity is declining rapidly due to land use change, climate change, invasive species, overexploitation, and pollution. These result from demographic, economic, sociopolitical, cultural, technological, and other indirect drivers, in a local sense, we are in a school so most of the wildlife here is either magpies or crows, so Tristan and I decided to try to increase biodiversity in our area, as previously mentioned we wanted to do the black cockatoo but upon finding out that that wasn’t possible we chose the Australian Ringneck. We where extremely rushed at the end of this project due to another group using up 2 of our most important building hours. This means that we where unable to attach metal to the sides of our boxes.

Due to this once they where put up 3 out of 4 of them where eaten away at by galas. Soon after that the galas nested inside them. Whist this isn’t our target bird we are still very happy because this is a still a native Australian bird.

Next semester we have planned to run the workshop mentioned earlier to allow 8-15 families to build their own boxes. We will also build a further 2 boxes for the 28’s this time with hinges and metal outer protection from galas. We will hang them up further down south where there are more 28’s. Then after all that we have planned to build as many Red tailed black cockatoo boxes as we can, to then hand over to Simon (A local bird box builder and the same person who helped put up the last 4 boxes in our school) for him to install in fire affected arias.

More updates coming later this year.