Boy fighting to save glossy black cockatoo habitat from aged care development

An 11-year-old boy's campaign to save the habitat of the vulnerable glossy black cockatoo is highlighting shortcomings in federal threatened-species laws.

"I think glossy blacks are really amazing birds and I've got a really amazing connection with them as well," Spencer Hitchen told 7.30.

More than 65,000 people have signed his online petition to stop further destruction of the cockatoos' habitat at Sunrise Beach, near Noosa, to make way for a Uniting Church aged care and residential village.

"He's fallen in love with glossy blacks," Spencer's mother Maxine Hitchen said.

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-07/threatened-species-glossy-black-cockatoo-losing-habitat/101573218