Culling farm wildlife for conservation and production on “Koobabbie”, a cereal and sheep growing property, in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia

Tribute to Alison Betty Doley AM: farmer and conservationist (28 October 1938 to 20 February 2019)

“…Since November 1989, with appropriate licences from Government agencies, Alison arranged for the destruction of any galah or western corella investigating hollows used by Carnaby's cockatoo, red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksi samueli) and Major Mitchell's cockatoo, or in the vicinity of such hollows. This control measure resulted in an increase in breeding success of Carnaby's cockatoo, in three pairs of Major Mitchell's cockatoo nesting each year and a large number of red-tailed black cockatoo being able to nest without competition (Saunders and Doley 2017). Feral cats, Felis catus, are known to climb trees and prey on cockatoos breeding in hollows, killing nestlings and adults.…”