When the bushfires raged through more than 1.5 million hectares of country, 70 per cent of Glossy Black Cockatoo habitat was impacted.
There are only about 200 south-eastern of these cockatoos left in Victoria, with most being in the local area.
Glossy Black Cockatoos are fussy eaters and their primary food source are from the seed cones of Black She-oaks.
This means a lot of their food source was lost and the hollow logs they laid a single egg in breeding season have also gone.
A mated pair was seen recently at Toorloo Arm which is minutes away from Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust (LTAT).
Another pair with a baby was seen close by, so LTAT thought it an essential project to plant more She-oaks.
IMAGE: Nathan Tregonning and Joe So worked as part of a larger group to plant more than 800 She-oak trees to help the Glossy Black Cockatoo. (PS)
