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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…
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…
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…
The Department of Conservation
This month the sound of booming male kakapo will herald the start of the breeding season on Codfish Island / Whenua Hou, an island sanctuary located 3km off the coast of Stewart Island.
The Department of Conservation is preparing to trial artificial insemination this kakapo breeding season in a bid to help boost numbers and increase genetic diversity within the small population. Read on…
Usually it’s the aircraft at Auckland International Airport which carry the passengers. South African Pillipus Fourie had passengers of his own. Read on…
San Juan Capistrano – Omar and Carolyn Gonzalez may have dedicated their lives to teaching others about rare and exotic birds, but a recent trip to Brazil provided the two with an education of their own. Read on…
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Authorities in Cameroon have arrested two Ghanaians for trying to illegally export 500 African Grey parrots out of the central African country to Bahrain, officials said on Tuesday. Read on…
By Eric berger - Houston Chronicle
Parrots around the world are dying.
Predators chomp them up at alarming rates. Human development has consumed their forest habitats. And, most alarmingly, says Texas A&M University parrot specialist Don Brightsmith, demand from bird collectors has created a thriving market in wild-caught birds. Read on…
Pity the swift parrot: it has the misfortune to tilt against a pulp mill, rather than a windmill, like its orange-bellied cousin famously did.
There are perhaps 1000 breeding pairs of the swift parrot left. If you managed to line them up side by side, every one of these resplendent birds left in the world could probably fit on your living room floor. That’s how close we are to losing them for good. Read on…
By Deire Mussen - Sunday Star Times
The first artificial insemination of a rare New Zealand bird is planned this summer in a bid to boost kakapo numbers.
Low population numbers have kept the critically endangered nocturnal parrot perilously close to extinction for the past 30 years, since a small breeding population was discovered on Stewart Island. All 86 kakapo, the world’s heaviest parrot, known to exist live on offshore predator-free island sanctuaries in the South Island.
Kakapo recovery programme senior technical officer Daryl Eason said he turned to artificial insemination after the last breeding season two years ago was hampered by high levels of egg infertility. Only four kakapo chicks were born from 26 eggs laid on Whenua Hou (Codfish Island), near Stewart Island, and 60% of eggs laid were infertile. Read on…
