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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal and state agencies are gearing up to make 2006 a turning point for the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program. “This is a very aggressive plan, with reintroduction of parrots into the wild, construction of a new aviary, captive breeding programs in two existing aviaries and monitoring of the wild populations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, and the U.S. Forest Service are working closely together and are partnering with communities to make it all happen,” indicated Edwin Muñiz, Field Supervisor for the Caribbean Ecological Services of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Read on…

BirdLife International

After a lapse of three years Kakapo have begun breeding again on New Zealand’s predator-free Codfish Island. Read on…

Wezi Tjaronda

New Era (Windhoek) Namibia.

Conservationists and bird lovers want to go into cooperation with the Protected Resources Unit to clean up the illegal trade in parrots. Read on…

Source: One News

New Zealand conservationists are flying in help from overseas in an effort to save the endangered Kakapo.

The birds have become increasingly infertile but it is hoped a foreign expert can inject new life into the breeding programme.

Endangered Birds Specialist Dr Juan Blanco has flown half way across the world to help solve the fertility problems of its only flightless parrot. Read on…

Scoop independent news

Two University of Canterbury biologists are part of a team whose evolutionary informed approach to conservation is aiding the recovery of New Zealand’s critically endangered parrot, the kakapo. Read on…

BirdLife International

An extensive survey for Red-throated Lorikeets on the Fijian islands of Viti Levu and Taveuni failed to encounter a single individual during 77 days of fieldwork between November 2001 and April 2002. This suggests that the species is even rarer than previously thought.

The Red-throated Lorikeet (Charmosyna amabilis) is classified as Endangered and is thought to occur on up to four islands. It has always been regarded as a rare species. It appears to be patchily distributed, with observations becoming much scarcer over the last few years. The last confirmed sighting occurred in the central highlands of Viti Levu in 1993, although there have been a number of more recent unconfirmed reports. Predation by introduced rats is thought to be a major factor in the decline.

Eclectus 12: pp. 2–4

Mali trade flitting away as ban looms

For these caged Senegalese parrots, chirping away their morning in captivity, a European ban to combat an Asian virus may mean freedom or starvation. Read on…

BirdLife International

The Guyana Amazon Tropical Birds Society has discovered a breeding pair of Festive Parrots (Amazona festiva) in the capital city of Georgetown, Guyana. Georgetown is well known for its diverse bird life (199 recorded species), but this is the first time that the Festive Parrot has been recorded in the city. Read on…

BirdLife International

BirdLife is calling on countries around the world to intensify efforts to stem the illegal trade in wild-caught birds, following recent detection of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus in both legally imported and smuggled birds. Read on…

BirdLife International

In 1987, the founder of Loro Parque Fundacion undertook his first parrot conservation project, aimed at saving the globally threatened Red-necked Parrot Amazona arausiaca and Imperial Parrot A. imperialis, two endemic amazons on the Caribbean island of Dominica. Read on…