Welcome to our Website
A Site Dedicated to the Blue Macaws and Parrot Conservation
This unique site - the only one of its kind - is dedicated to the gathering and dissemination of information about the Blue Macaws, the Anodorhynchus group of parrots, and the promotion of parrot conservation. We hope that you will enjoy perusing our site, which is full of information from all over the world about the Blue Macaws.
Information about Blue Macaws
We have comprehensive information on and images of the Hyacinthine Macaw ( A.hyacinthinus), the Lear’s Macaw (A.leari) and Glaucous Macaw (A.glaucus) as well as the extremely rare Spix’s Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii).
Preservation of the Blue Macaws and their Habitat - Can You Help?
If you are curious about these birds, their conservation or indeed interested in doing something however small or large, to preserve this magnificent and captivating species, by the development and implementation of workable strategies to protect and save parrot species from extinction, or if you can contribute any more to the cause of protecting their fast disappearing habitat in Brazil, which is threatened by the ever present threat from the human population, then we will be delighted to hear from you - please get in touch by email.
Quotes
" Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret "
( If you drive out nature with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back)
Horace (65-8 BC)"Creatures who have traveled with us through the ages are now apparently doomed, as their habitat - and the old, old habitat of humans - falls before the slow-motion explosion of expanding world economies"
Gary Snyder (1990)"We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell..."
Martin Prechtel (1998)"The clock is no longer just ticking – it’s ringing an alarm, and if we don’t listen the consequences for people and biodiversity will be catastrophic.”
Dr. Fred Boltz, Conservation International (2009)Latest News
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Wednesday 7th June 2023
Update on windfarm situation
An article appeared in the March 2023 issue of the German "Papageien" magazine with the source being given as Birdlife International. You can access the translation of the article under the content page of Lear’s Macaws in the Wild.
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Saturday 17th December 2022
Annual Activity Report 2021-2 of the Hyacinth Macaw Institute
I received the Annual Activity report for 2021-2 of the Hyacinth Macaw Institute (Instituto Arara Azul) this morning, which makes impressive reading. Neiva Guedes and her team are really doing a great job in the Pantanal in conservation of the Hya ... Read More »
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Monday 12th December 2022
More Spix’s macaws released into the wild in Brazil
More good news from Brazil. The second soft release of Spix’s macaws into the wild started last Friday, 9th December. This time twelve Spix’s macaws and nine Illiger’s macaws were involved. The ACTP team in Brazil, the ICMB ... Read More »