People For Wildlife

16/06/2026

𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲 has featured our recent Palm cockatoo nesting success, shining a spotlight on the dedication and collaboration behind this important conservation work. A proud moment for our team!

03/06/2026

Just a glimpse of some of the interesting visitors recorded by one of our in-hollow cameras within an artificial Palm cockatoo nesting hollow. 💚🐍🦎🪳📏

17/04/2026

While out surveying our acoustic recorders, we got distracted! 🐬

Moments like these don’t show up in our data, but they are a reminder why healthy ecosystems matter, and what we’re working to protect.

A detour from the science, but very much part of the story. 💚

02/04/2026

Incredible! One of our wildlife-friendly cameras has recorded an elusive blue-tailed monitor (𝘝𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴) raiding the nest of an estuarine crocodile (𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴).

These striking monitors are opportunistic predators - eating insects, small animals, carrion and eggs … including crocodile eggs, as we’ve now witnessed. 🐊 🥚

Blue tailed monitors are highly cryptic and rarely seen in the wild, so to capture this behaviour on camera is truly special.

Several years ago, members of our team were the first people to record this species from Australia.

28/03/2026

🙌 💪

Scientists rejoice as adult birds enter an artificial hollow to feed and incubate the egg, before hatching and eventually flying away.

28/03/2026

We’ve “cracked the code” 💪 Article today by ABC News 🙌

Christina N. Zdenek

Scientists rejoice as adult birds enter an artificial hollow to feed and incubate the egg, before hatching and eventually flying away.

25/03/2026

Conservation Win! 💪💚
Thrilled to see our palmy news shared by Mongabay.com 👏🪵🖤❤️🖤 Christina N. Zdenek

Conservationists in Australia are celebrating the fledging of a palm cockatoo chick, a species considered endangered in the country. It fledged from an artificial log hollow installed on a tree for breeding cockatoos. The structure is one of 29 such spaces created as part of People For Wildlife’s ...

20/03/2026

From Cape York to France - Our Palm cockatoos are going global! 🌍💚

We are thrilled to see this world-first conservation success featured in Ornithomedia highlighting the global importance of protecting this iconic Australian species. ☺️🫶🌏

Christina N. Zdenek

Le Cacatoès noir est une espèce en déclin, qui dépend des cavités des vieux arbres pour nicher, qui deviennent de plus en plus rares dans le nord de Australie, à cause de la multiplication des cyclones.

16/03/2026

Great article by The Cape York Weekly about our recent artificial hollow nesting success for Palm cockatoos! 🪵💚

For a bird species relying on centuries-old trees and well-timed cyclones, nesting habitats are hard to come by, but an…

13/03/2026

We are excited to announce a world first, and major conservation success! An endangered Palm cockatoo has successfully nested in an artificial hollow!

People For WIldlife, Traditional Owners & Palm cockatoo expert Dr Christina Christina N. Zdenek have made and installed 29 artificial hollows in northern Cape York to help address the loss of critical nesting habitat for this endangered species.

Just 1 month after we erected this artificial log hollow, a pair laid an egg inside (on the nesting platform we made for them). Such a rapid uptake of this nesting resource provides further evidence that there is a desperate need for large nesting hollows in the region. Dr Zdenek has confirmed that the bird on the right in the first image is the fledgling, and the bird on the left is the father.

Using wildlife-friendly remote cameras, we collected almost 8000 images between September and December 2025. These images revealed the adult birds exploring, entering, and guarding the hollow, providing crucial confirmation of nesting by this secretive species. Then, one of our team members secured a single high-resolution image of the chick on top of the hollow on its last day there before fledging. Hard work paying off!

The Palm Cockatoo Breeding Habitat Restoration Project is supported by Louis Vuitton, the Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, the Australian Geographic Society, the North Queensland Wildlife Trust, Birds Queensland and our public supporters.

Photo credit: People For Wildlife/Ben Muller