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In the wild they fly many miles every day, spend a lot of time socializing, foraging for food, chewing wood and preening themselves
Parrots are as intelligent and sensitive as they are beautiful. But, as more and more end up in pet shops, the threats to them loom large. Read on…
Captive conservation of parrot populations has many advantages. Intensive husbandry, veterinary and dietary control enable conservation biologist to boost threatened populations of parrots remarkably. The shelter provided also protects them against foul weather like tropical storms that have the power to devastate island, or otherwise confined, populations of parrot. Captive conservation management is however expensive and holds risks of its own. Building aviaries and paying people to maintain them is usually by far the biggest drain on captive conservation budgets. Dollars better spent on “in situ�? projects where they would be more effective. Captivity itself has adverse effects on parrots as well. In many cases confined and frustrated parrots start to show self mutilating and aggressive behaviours. Resulting in damaged or even the dead breeding stock. In situ projects are far more economic for they do not require aviaries or their maintenance. But leaves you with finite control over disease, weather and other chance effects that could influence the populations stability. So is there a method of managing parrot populations that gives you the best of both?
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The Parrot family is the avian class most at risk of extinction. In sharp contrast, it is also the class very many naturalised species. Conservation should learn from this. Parrots from a wide range species and genera life naturalised in cities, suburbs, parks and botanical gardens on every continent. Some of these naturalized species are endangered, critically endangered and even now extinct in native ranges. Suburban parrots show that parrots can adapt to alien habitats and maintain sizable populations there. Although no substitute for habitat preservation, establishing native suburban populations of threatened or near-threatened species is a comparatively simple and economic conservation tool of use for species of parrots that are now mostly neglected by conservation.
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The Ecuadorian Minister of the Environment has signed a decree putting into effect a conservation strategy for the Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua). Read on…
The Age By Penelope Debelle
Another drought in southern Australia may further threathen the endangered subspecies of red-tailed black cockatoos - the mascot for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Read on…
Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation
Updated: July 2005
In the first week of May 2005 another two Spix’s Macaw chicks hatched, and are now being hand–reared by the staff at Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation. These two new baby macaws represent an amazing almost 4 % increase in the known world population of their species. Read on…
Fabio Arjona, Executive Director, CI Colombia
Bogota: High in the mist-shrouded Colombian Andes, the yellow-eared parrot (Ognorhynchus icterotis) and the QuindÃo wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense) today have a new lease on life—as do the remarkable landscapes that sustain them. Five years ago, a unique pact was forged between CI, its partners, and the Roman Catholic church to save both species, which are on the verge of extinction. Today, the alliance is lauded as one of the most successful biodiversity conservation campaigns in Latin American history. Read on…
Birds seized from smugglers will be released into wild
Parrots intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border and cared for by U.S. officials during a months-long quarantine were returned to Mexico at the Otay Mesa border crossing yesterday. The birds transferred yesterday were among more than 170 seized in two border busts in August and October.
The exotic birds were hatched in the Mexican tropics but wound up as contraband headed to a swap meet in Los Angeles. They never made it because their smugglers couldn’t get past border inspectors. Read on…
Rex Dalton, San Diego Nature 432
Rules against avian trade aim to halt disease and conserve wildlife.
More than 200 environmental groups are asking the European Union (EU) to introduce a permanent ban on the importation of wild birds. Read on…
The globally threatened St Vincent Parrot, national bird of St Vincent and the Grenadines, is under threat from a cross-country road funded by the Taiwanese Government. The road would irreversibly damage the remnants of primary rainforest on which the parrot depends, and open it up to further encroachment by illegal loggers and marijuana growers. Read on…
