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| Curacao sends back smuggled parrots and macaw after stopping Venezuelan vessel |
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Thursday, August 19 2004 @ 06:10 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
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Authorities in neighboring Curacao indicate that the island will return 14 parrots and 1 macaw parrot that were illegally taken from Venezuela to be sold abroad.
The birds had been snatched in Falcon and Delta Amacuro States and sold. On May 18, Curacao police boarded Venezuelan boat Sol de Caribe, seizing 30 parrots illegally transported without proper care.
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| U.S., Puerto Rico race to save parrots |
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Thursday, August 19 2004 @ 06:04 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
Views: 7775
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 La Mohicana, as workers have named the 11-year-old female, has endured a lifetime of respiratory difficulty. This morning, her handlers found her sitting on the floor of her cage, refusing to eat. They rushed her into the clinic, laid her down on the table and put an oxygen mask over her head.
Now she has stopped breathing altogether. Velez, a wildlife biologist, calls for a syringe of the stimulant Dopram to revive her and directs an assistant to contact the veterinarian.
"Esta volviendo," Velez says. "She's coming back."
Every bird is precious here at the Luquillo Aviary, where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working to save the most endangered parrot in the world.
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| New EU 'will boost illegal wildlife trade' |
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Tuesday, April 27 2004 @ 12:16 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
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 UNSCRUPULOUS traders will exploit the enlargement of the European Union to sell illegally obtained wildlife, experts will warn today.
Speaking as the EU prepares to welcome ten new members, Traffic and WWF, the global environment network, urged the accession countries to increase efforts to stem the illegal wildlife trade.
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| There's no "there" there. |
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Saturday, April 24 2004 @ 08:06 AM UTC
Contributed by: visualizer
Views: 7757
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You often hear that "parrots were meant to be in the wild, where humans do not belong, where humans do not intervene," or similar ravings. It's bunk.
Humans need the wild places even more as everyone on the planet migrates to cities.
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| The Riddle of the Spix |
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Tuesday, April 06 2004 @ 03:29 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
Views: 7577
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 When is a species extinct, even though living members
still exist? Before we can look at an answer to this grave and tantalizing
question, lets look at the Spixs Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii).
This gray-headed, blue-bodied bird was thought to be gone from the wild
until 1990, though some still remained in private hand in captivity around
the world (and still do). Then, traveling in the forests near Curaca,
Brazil, two ornithologists spotted one lone male Spix, the last of its
kind to have known life at the tops of the trees. It was the only Spix on
earth eating a diet perfectly suited to its nature. It was the only Spix
which knew the local seasonal variations in fruits, and in water, as any
farmer would know his own land. This was the only living Spix which knew,
from its own experience and from watching the experiences of others, what
living threats to its survival were all around.
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Conservation Program Prepares Captive Parrots For Life In The Wild - Texas A&MThese parrots once roamed the American Southwest. Scientists are trying to help them : Short Wave - NPRTHE PARROT KING - National Audubon SocietyDoes parrot farming protect wild species? 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Meet the people who are saving them. - SFGATETrade in African Grey Parrots for Belief-Based Use: Insights From West Africa's Largest Traditional Medicine Market - FrontiersSaving the blue parrots of South America - BBC EarthUS Fish And Wildlife Provides Funding To Help Conserve The Puerto Rican Parrot - ForbesThere are 14 wild orange-bellied parrots left – this summer is our last chance to save them - The ConversationJuan Carlos Cantú - Defenders of WildlifeSaving flightless parrots from extinction - BBC Wildlife MagazineOrange-bellied parrot shows there’s more to saving endangered species than captive breeding - The ConversationMore capacity building funds needed for small nonprofit conservation groups (commentary) - MongabayEcho parakeet management programme - ZSLGlobal trade in African grey parrots banned - Phys.org(PDF) Advancing Genetic Methods in the Study of Parrot Biology and Conservation - researchgate.netSingapore's wild bird trade raises troubling questions about African grey parrots - Phys.orgThis parrot was thought to be extinct in the wild — until a farmer spotted one - The Washington PostInternational trade in African grey parrots banned - MongabayAfrican grey parrot has global summit to thank for protected status | Illegal wildlife trade - The GuardianRare Parrots Rebound In New Zealand And Australia - WorldAtlasCritically Endangered Parrot Bounces Back in Huge Conservation Victory - ScienceAlertEndangered Neotropical Parrots Inform In Situ and Ex Situ - researchgate.netConservation Concern for the Deteriorating Geographical Range of the Grey Parrot in Cameroon - Wiley Online LibraryHabitat Preferences of the Grey Parrot in Heterogeneous Vegetation Landscapes and Their Conservation Implications - Wiley Online LibraryFlorida's Wild Parrots Are Being Poached, Sold On the Internet, and It's Perfectly Legal - The Weather ChannelParrots Seized from Congolese Traffickers in April 2022 released to the wild - Modern GhanaHow hobby bird breeders believe they can help save endangered parrots - Australian Broadcasting CorporationHopes of saving orange-bellied parrot hang on foster baby - Australian Broadcasting CorporationForest conservation: Saving the endangered Cape parrot’s natural habitat by planting one tree at a time - Daily MaverickDon’t give up on orange-bellied parrots yet, there’s still hope - The ConversationUWEC releases back into the wild rehabilitated African grey parrots - Nilepost NewsUWEC unveils African Grey Parrot Conservation Center - ChimpReportsWorld Sensation: Return of a Parrot Species Extinct in the Wild – Project Updates - lifePRParrots Seized from Congolese Traffickers Released to the Wild - SoftPower NewsWorld sensation: Return of a parrot species extinct in the wild - lifePREarth Wire -- Global trade in wild African Grey Parrot banned, U.N. meeting rules - ANTARA News119 Grey African Parrots seized from Congolese traffickers released to the wild - standardmedia.co.keUWEC opens Uganda’s first grey parrot conservation centre - Daily MonitorUganda releases parrots seized from Congolese traffickers - PML Daily
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Conservationists in Nigeria are concerned by a growing trade in the export of grey parrots from Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon.
