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File Description: Access Alliance: Enhancing Carnaby’s Cockatoo breeding opportunities along
Great Northern Highway
A commitment to protect the endangered Carnaby’s Cockatoo has driven environmental protection
practices for the Great Northern Highway upgrade project.
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In a region where the majority of native vegetation has been cleared for agricultural land uses, road reserve vegetation has become a valuable habitat for native fauna, including WA’s own Carnaby’s Cockatoo.
To support the continued success of this endangered bird within their works area, the Access Alliance team is undertaking a series of management and mitigation strategies that seek to enhance breeding opportunities for the cockatoos along the Great Northern Highway.
Strategies include:

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Installation of artificial nesting boxes (to date nearly 30 boxes have been installed to mitigate the removal of confirmed and potential hollows);
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Rehabilitation of disturbed areas including borrow and spoil pits, and redundant sections of existing road formation;
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The realignment of a portion of roadwork in the northern package to preserve an area of vegetation, which is feeding habitat and contains nesting hollows;
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Revegetation using local native species to maintain and enhance links with adjacent bushland and provide a food source for the Carnaby’s;
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Acquisition of land containing existing vegetation to be included as road reserve;
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distribution of information to landowners about artificial nesting boxes.
The protection and enhancement of the environmental values of road reserves is a key environmental commitment for all Main Roads projects and the Great Northern Highway upgrade project illustrates how the Access Alliance team is working to meet this commitment through habitat protection measures.
The Great Northern Highway upgrade project is scheduled for completion in February 2010, with revegetation works continuing through winter. 
Raising community awareness on the plight of the Carnaby’s Cockatoos through community events, supervised handling of Carnaby’s Cockatoos, provision of population monitoring sheets and

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