The Gouldian finch was once found right across northern Australia but it's now thought there are fewer than 2,500 left in the wild. Their return to a coastal corner of Darwin has started a grassroots movement to stop a Defence housing project.
A spokesperson for the authority said environmental approval "was obtained following a detailed assessment of the impacts of the project on biodiversity".
"There's something like 240 bird species that have been seen in that Casuarina Coastal Reserve, Lee Point area and that's about a quarter of Australian bird species," he said. "When you get an area like that, where you've got food and you've got water, the birds will come there for a period of time, but the fact that these birds seem to be resident there, and their numbers have been increasing, that indicates they're breeding close by to there as well."
The community effort to lobby environment minister Tanya Plibersek's office, which includes citizen science projects, hasn't gone unnoticed in Canberra. As a result, the department is working with the authority to conduct additional surveys to identify habitat for the Gouldian finch.
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