New push to protect endangered parrot

The critically endangered swift parrot is the subject of a new Tasmanian conservation campaign, which is calling for an end to logging on Bruny Island, the bird's last safe nesting place.

Forests on the island are the subject of an interim logging ban and the Bob Brown Foundation wants the exclusion zone made permanent.

"Bruny Island ... is the last great stronghold for these birds to nest - they depend on these forests," Dr Brown said on Tuesday.