City ParrotsUrban Scarlet Macaw & Parrot Conservation

We at Araproject always like to hear about parrots finding there freedom and readapting to a live in the wild. Here is a small story brought to us by Stewart Metz of the Indonesian Parrot Project: Read on…

The Southland Times

A new generation of orange-fronted kakariki (Cyanoramphus malherbi) had been successfully established on Chalky Island, ending fears the critically endangered parakeet could become extinct, the Department of Conservation said yesterday. Read on…

Dear Wild Bird Supporters

We need your help to create a permanent ban on wild caught birds.

Years ago, you were kind enough to sign a petition to ask the EU to stop importing wild birds. The response was overwhelming and on World Parrot Day 2004, we delivered that petition with 30,000 signatures to the Prime Minister’s home at 10 Downing Street in London.
Your help today could make the ban permanent. Read on…

BirdLife International

CITES, the international Convention governing trade in threatened species, has recommended a two-year ban from January 2007 on exports of Grey Parrots Psittacus erithacus from four West African countries (Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea), where the distinctive (sub)species timneh is found, and two Central African countries (Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea), where the more widespread (sub)species erithacus occurs. Only two countries— Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo—should be permitted to continue exporting Grey Parrots after January 2007, although their quotas should be halved to 4,000 and 5,000 birds respectively. Read on…

THE PRIME MINISTER

Mr Graham Wynne

The RSPB, along with the RSPCA, and many other conservation groups have been campaigning hard to end the trade of wild birds into Europe. So I thought you and your members would want to know that the Government is to press for the present temporary ban on wild birds being imported into the EU to be extended indefinitely. Read on…

Europeanvoice.com

Europe should find a way to end the import of wild birds to European zoos and households, according to EU food experts and Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. Read on…

ABC

The Department of Environment and Conservation is optimistic a bushfire in the Fitzgerald River National Park, in southern Western Australia, has not had a major impact on a population of critically endangered birds. Read on…

The Mercury, MICHELLE PAINE

A planned release of orange-bellied parrots (Neophema chrysogaster) into the wild this year has been cancelled as a quarantine cover continues over the endangered bird.

The cause of death of 43 baby birds at the government breeding facility at Taroona last summer has still not been determined. Read on…

The Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Twenty-one Puerto Rican parrots raised in captivity will be released - a first attempt to create a new population of the threatened species by reintroducing it into an area where it previously existed, U.S. wildlife officials said Wednesday.

The parrots - which are bright green with a red forehead and wings that flash turquoise in flight - will be let go at the Rio Abajo aviary in Utuado on Sunday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a statement. Read on…

ABC

Construction of a $650 million pulp mill near Penola, in south-east South Australia, could begin in the next few weeks, after yesterday’s granting of Federal Government approval. Read on…