Chainsaws turn into unlikely saviour for Tasmania’s endangered swift parrots

Conservationists hope human-made hollows designed for nesting will lead to a breeding season boon for the birds. But they warn the ‘Band-Aid solution’ affords the parrots a temporary reprieve from a far bigger battle: habitat lossThe sound of chainsaws fills the forest of Bruny Island in Tasmania as a group of 30 arborists cut into white peppermint trees, which provide essential nesting for the endangered swift parrot.The arborists, from Victoria and Sydney, paid for their own flight