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By Subhash Chandra N S, DH News Service, Bangalore
“Birds thrive where silence prevails.” So goes the saying. But as if to rewrite this stereotype, thousands of parakeets have made a single ficus tree, bang in the middle of Bangalore’s crowded K R Market, their home… Read on…
Seven kakapo chicks that hatched just over two weeks ago on Whenua Hou (Codfish Island) are to be transferred to special facilities in Nelson to ensure their survival. Read on…
New Zealand Herald By Angela Gregory
The Department of Conservation is concerned at the discovery of dead kaka in a populated area of Great Barrier Island. Read on…
Conservation efforts have slowed the rate that species are slipping towards extinction, argues a paper published online today in Conservation Biology by scientists from BirdLife International and Cambridge University. Direct conservation action has saved 16 bird species from extinction since 1994 and has substantially slowed the rate of population decline for an additional 33 Critically Endangered bird species. Read on…
Business people at the Preston Industrial Park, near Bunbury, have accused the Western Australian Government of seizing their land.
In a new environmental assessment of the park, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has revealed it intends to keep 980 hectares of the park as a protected reserve for the carnaby black cockatoo. Read on…
The illegal wild bird trade remains rampant in Indonesia, and includes a number of parrot species; populations of some of these are considered vulnerable to future extinction. Enforcement of laws protecting parrots is critical, and such interdiction has recently been stepped up in Central Maluku by officers of BKSDA (Conservation and Natural Resources) and the Department of Forestry. However, the problem then remains as to the disposition of birds captured by government authorities. To begin to address that problem, the Indonesian Parrot Project established the Kembali Bebas Rehabilitation Center on North Seram Island to receive such parrots; the Center is managed by Yayasan Wallacea (director, Ceisar Riupassa). The day-to-day care of the parrots is provided by former bird trappers and consequently, poaching of parrots on this circumscribed part of the island has been virtually eliminated. Read on…
It’s that time of year when native birds and passing traffic come into conflict in western Lithgow — with the feathered friends clearly coming off second best. Read on…
What turns you on? For the kakapo, New Zealand’s giant flightless parrot, the answer may be key to its survival. Only 86 remain in the wild and the birds only breed every three to five years. Read on…
Zoology students and staff from Dundee University are to help in a project which has seen a rare bird reintroduced into the rainforest of Trinidad.
The blue and gold macaw was made extinct on the island about 15 years ago and is still an endangered species. Read on…
The eagerly-awaited arrival of some of New Zealand’s most precious babies has started, with the hatching of five kakapo chicks in the last two weeks. Read on…
