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By Amanda Keane: Hills News

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has given Castle Hill Country Club permission to kill native corellas which have been damaging its greens. Read on…

ABC Online

Firefighters in the Fitzgerald River National Park on the state’s south will continue back-burning this morning in an effort to contain a blaze before a forecast change in wind direction around midday. Read on…

The Australian

PARROT experts say an aviary breeding program intended to save one of Australia’s rarest birds has ended in disaster, with the Norfolk Island parakeet teetering on the brink of extinction.

Some of the last surviving parakeets died after being caught for breeding in aviaries on Norfolk Island. While authorities claim the program was successful and that the wild parakeet population had ballooned to more than 200, experts believe the real figure could be fewer than 20.

The Norfolk Island parakeet is found only on the small Pacific island, an Australian territory. Read on…

Wildlife Extra

After eight years of work in Tolima, the International project to save the critically endangered Yellow-eared parakeet (The Ognorhynchus Project) has achieved two unprecedented records: the finding of 52 Yellow-eared Parakeet active nests in April, and of 132 chicks between May and June. This is a major milestone for a bird that was down to less than 100 just 10 years ago. Read on…

BirdLife International

In a recently published paper, Asociacion Armonia (BirdLife in Bolivia) monitored the wild birds which passed through a pet market in Santa Cruz between August 2004 to July 2005, and recorded nearly 7,300 individuals of 31 parrot species, of which four were threatened species. Read on…

Gulf times by Fran Gillespie

Brilliantly coloured Birds of Paradise fly from tree to tree in a vast aviary, their iridescent plumage glittering in the sunlight.Below them, pink flamingoes and white spoonbills stalk the shallow waters of a pool, and the silence is broken by the harsh cries of Red-tailed cockatoos. All this under one roof? Yes, said Richard Switzer, the bird curator of the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation near Shahaniya, in his presentation to members of the Qatar Natural History Group (QNHG) last Wednesday. Read on…

By Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat

Five hundred African grey parrots, valued at about R3,5-million, have been confiscated in Cameroon.

Ofir Drori, from the Last Great Ape Organisation (Laga), an organisation designed to establish the effective enforcement of wildlife law in Cameroon - said a dealer had been arrested at the airport. Read on…

Reuters

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines said on Thursday it was not aware of a Cameroonian conservation group’s allegation that the state-run airline was involved in illegal wildlife smuggling. Read on…

By Tansa Musa

Yaounde (Reuters) - A wildlife conservation group in Cameroon said on Wednesday it was considering suing Ethiopian Airlines for complicity after it caught smugglers trying to take 1,000 African Grey parrots out of the central African country. Read on…

United Press International

Warsaw, Poland, (UPI) — Polish police found a 38-year-old Armenian man trying to illegally enter the country by hiding in a woman’s luggage. Read on…