Filmmaker Jane Hammond dedicated one year to documenting the endangered black cockatoo species native to Western Australia, leading to the creation of her film Black Cockatoo Crisis.

There are less than 40,000 Carnaby's Cockatoos left, just 10,000 Baudins, and around 10,000 red tailed forest black cockatoos.

Hammond told National Indigenous Times she first got the urge to bring awareness to the wider audience after a trip down south.

She met with Wardarnji Elder Wayne Webb who shared with her the significance of the black cockatoos in Aboriginal culture.

Hammond shared a pivotal moment for her when she was researching the Black cockatoos.

"At one point we were in the forest and I was with the protestors and it had been quite quiet," she said.

"And the police came and they were threatening a protestor with a ten thousand dollar fine. They were saying come down to the guy and then these Carnaby's came out of nowhere, a huge flock flew through this big clearing where everybody was," she said.

Hammond said she felt as if the birds were aware of what was going on during the protest.

She brought this up to a local Custodian who told her of course the birds knew - the Carnby's represent their ancestors, their spirit birds.

"It kind of opened up this new way of looking at these birds," Hammond said.

From that moment Hammond spent a year filming and researching the three types of black cockatoos.

Hammond found that Baudin's Black Cockatoos are being shot out of the sky in an unequal battle for food with apple and pear growers in Perth's hills.

Meanwhile the Red Tail Forest Black Cockatoos are under threat from the loss of nesting hollows and declining habitat.

The Carnabys are facing possible starvation within the next two years as the remaining 6000ha of pines are going to be demolished.

Throughout the documentary Hammond speaks with many various people on how to protect and provide safety for the black Cockatoos.

These interviewees consist of First Nations people and scientists as well as protestors who have been working and building the movement from the ground up.

"We are hoping people will get a frighten awareness for these birds, that they will do little things like put water in their garden and not chop down their big Marri trees," she said.

"More than that they'll go and see their MP and they'll say to that MP, we want actions to save these birds, real actions.

"We need much stronger laws, for an example to seal the trucks, we need stronger laws to say we will net all orchards."

The community has grown throughout the years, with more people wanting to help protect the birds from suffering preventable death.