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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…
The globally threatened parakeets of New Caledonia are celebrated in a set of three postage stamps, issued by Office des Postes et Telecommunications with The New Caledonian Ornithological Society (Société Calédonienne d’Ornithologie, SCO). Read on…
The Conservation Department is warning people not mix up their parrots and harm the protected native kaka, when their target is an Australian intruder.
Australian eastern rosellas have been damaging crops in the Bay of Plenty and farmers are taking steps to control them. Read on…
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…
Logging has devastated more than half of an endangered native bird’s protected nesting colony, because of a bureaucratic bungle by the Department of Sustainability and Environment. Read on…
By Deborah Smith Science Editor
The males are green. The females are brilliant red and blue.
Now the puzzle of the unique colour scheme of the Australian eclectus parrot has been solved in an eight-year study by researchers who climbed tall rainforest trees to observe them in their nests. Read on…
Zero is an abstract notion that humans don’t typically understand until ages 3 or 4. 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…
For most people, the thought of hiking through cold, boggy tracks to sleep in a small tent on a steep hillside, and then to be woken four to fives times a night, doesn’t sound like a holiday. Read on…
Now that they’re proven to be profitable, we’ve entered a golden age of intelligent nonfiction films about every subject under the sun. Made on a shoestring and lovingly passed from one art house to the next, many of the best recent documentaries are made by people who see the world through their lens, with far-reaching ambitions to teach, incite and unearth universality in their subjects. But since Hoop Dreams, it’s been common knowledge that the most resonant documentaries usually are narrow tales about remarkable lives. In storytelling, less usually means more, and it’s hard to imagine much simpler abundance than in The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Read on…
