Stop cockatoo culls in Potts Point

Thank you to everyone who signed the petition to save the cockatoos of inner Sydney. The petition now has nearly 500 signatures (on paper and online) and your support has been communicated to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, the NSW Minister for Environment and Heritage, the City of Sydney Council and local media. We have been informed that the owners of the building in Potts Point who applied for a permit to cull cockatoos have not as yet gone ahead with the killings, and are instead currently considering humane and effective methods of protecting their property. We hope that compassion and logic prevail, and that the building owners, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and other government officials set a new precedent by using humane and non-lethal ways of deterring the wild birds from damaging property.

UPDATE: In the first week of September 2011, the property owners have decided to pull out of negotiations with the City of Sydney Council to use humane deterrants, citing building heritage concerns. Despite the property owners acknowledging in the media that culling will not work effectively, they are committed to their decision to kill. We are still calling on the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the NSW Minister of Environment and Heritage to not issue permits to cull cockatoos in Potts Point, and instead set a new precedent to protect wildlife in Sydney.