Fewer than 8,000 glossy black-cockatoos remain in the wild across Australia. In response, a group of farmers are planting trees in their thousands to bring back the species' habitat.
Mid-Lachlan Landcare's Tracee Bourke has been assisting landholders in the area with revegetating farmland.
"It is no use just popping some trees on a farm in the middle of nowhere. You need to be building on the habitat in the range they are already existing in."David Watson, a professor of ecology at Charles Sturt University, has seen firsthand the impact tree planting can have on his 12-acre property near Albury.
"Then one day there it was sitting in a tree next to the kitchen window, a glossy black-cockatoo in a tree that we had planted. "What we have done since settlement is cut down a lot of the habitat, and what is left is little patches that are widely separated."
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