News - 2005

Annual seminar of the Fonds für bedrohte Papageien

This group raise significant sums of money to fund conservation projects around the world

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Transfer of Sheick Saud Al-Thani's Spix's Macaws

the Spix's Macaws belonging to Sheikh Saud Al-Thani held in Switzerland had been transferred to Qatar

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Outbreak of Proventricular Dilatation Disease

According to a report published by AWWP on its website, three Spix's Macaws have died

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Other two Spix’s Macaw hatched

These two chicks represent additional hope and motivation in the conservation of the species

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How best can local communities conserve their environmental heritage?

Donald Brightsmith and Dusti Becker will be giving a talk on Thursday 23rd June, 7.00 - 8.30 p.m about this topic

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CITES trade data

Can find no imports of Lear's Macaws into Switzerland reported between 1979 and 2003

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Lots of happenings to report!

Some different news and information about the Blue Macaw world

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My trip in Washington

There I did manage a brief visit to the specimen collection at the Smithsonian Institution

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Happy New Year with some good news!

At the end of last year there was more good news from Loro Parque with the hatching of a second Spix's Macaw

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