In our 11th hour bid to try to save the mature trees along Manning Road, I met Chris Phillips, general manager of Kaarakin, located in 40 hectares of bushland in the Darling Ranges near Gosnells. The Centre is not only about the rehabilitation of the Forest Red-tailed Black and Carnabys cockatoos, both native to Western Australia and critically endangered, although these magnificent birds are its focus and reason for being. It is also about preserving biodiversity, the rehabilitation of the forest, and building an education and scientific base of which future generations will be proud.








