City ParrotsUrban Scarlet Macaw & Parrot Conservation

The upcoming weeks are crucial in the conservation of parrots and other birds. The E.U. will reevaluate the temporary ban on bird imports. To date the ban has saved 4.000.000 birds! Read on…

Parrots have been saved by an import ban, RSPB claims

A temporary import ban on birds introduced due to the threat of bird flu has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of rare and exotic birds, the RSPB has claimed today. Read on…

BirdLife International

Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, around 450 km² of uninhabited moist tropical limestone forest with its extraordinary landscape of peaks, potholes and caves, and home to 27 of Jamaica’s 28 endemic bird species is at risk from bauxite mining. Read on…

Euro group for animal welfare

Today, Members of the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted for “more animal protection in the EU “. With a large majority, they adopted the written report by MEP Jeggle on the Action plan on the Protection and Welfare of Animals 2006-2010. Herewith, the MEPs approved the first ever Community strategic plan on animal protection outlining future activities, measures and tools for the forthcoming years in order to promote the protection of animals. This is a historic report as for the first time animal protection is also referred as “an important Community goal and a permanent obligation of the EUâ€?. Furthermore, this acknowledges a key rolefor animal welfare in future European Policies. Read on…

ABC News

A mysterious disease is threatening the endangered orange-bellied parrot.

Birds in the captive breeding program near Hobart have been in quarantine since January, when 46 nestlings were killed by the disease. Read on…

AAP

The bird which stopped a $220 million wind farm development is now about to come into the money itself, through a $3.2 million federal government investment in its future. Read on…

But many more are under threat

Some of the most beautiful and rare types of birds, ranging from the Norfolk Island green parrot to the Mauritius parakeet, were critically endangered in 1994 with populations less than 100. Dr Stuart Butchart, an expert with the British-based group BirdLife International, has now conducted a global audit of 27 of the threatened species. Read on…

Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP)Press release

On the 14th, July 2006, the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP), owned by HE Sheikh Saoud Bin Mohammad Bin Ali Al-Thani, successfully hatched their first Lear’s Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) chick. AWWP keeps four pairs of Lear’s Macaws, which have been on loan from the Brazilian Government since 2004. The species has proven challenging to breed in captivity and until this most recent hatching, the species had not officially been successfully bred since 1984. The breeding pair at AWWP laid a clutch of three eggs, two of which were fertile. The fertile egg which did not hatch died very early in development and could only be determined as being fertile during an egg necropsy. Read on…

By Gerald McCormack, Cook Islands Natural Heritage

Introduction
It is planned to reintroduce the endangered Rimatara Lorikeet (‘Ura, Vini kuhlii) to Ä€tiu in the Cook Islands from Rimatara in French Polynesia in July 2007 to establish a reserve population. The programme is being implemented by four organisations: the Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust (CINHT), an agency of the Cook Islands government; Te Ipukarea Society (TIS), the Cook Islands affiliate of BirdLife International; the Ornithological Society of Polynesia (MANU), the French Polynesia affiliate of BirdLife International; and Zoological Society of San Diego (San Diego Zoo). Read on…

Parrot’s endangered list nomination threatens wind farms

A submission to list the orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) as critically endangered, could put an end to wind farms in Tasmania, South Australia and Victoria.

The federal Department of Environment and Heritage has nominated the parrot based on a report into bird collisions with wind farms. Read on…