Annual seminar of the Fonds für bedrohte Papageien
This group raise significant sums of money to fund conservation projects around the world
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
Outbreak of Proventricular Dilatation Disease
According to a report published by AWWP on its website, three Spix's Macaws have died
Other two Spix’s Macaw hatched
These two chicks represent additional hope and motivation in the conservation of the species
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
CITES trade data
Can find no imports of Lear's Macaws into Switzerland reported between 1979 and 2003
Lots of happenings to report!
Some different news and information about the Blue Macaw world
My trip in Washington
There I did manage a brief visit to the specimen collection at the Smithsonian Institution
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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Latest News
- Native trees planted on burned pasture land
- On-line article on American Bird Conservancy website November 2020
- Interesting paper on the Spix’s Macaw
- Burned pasture land in the Pantanal replaced with groves of native tree species
- Azul Airline decorates one of its jets with images of the Spix’s macaw
- Covid-19 prevents the corn replacement team operating
- Blue macaws help to grow the forest around them
- Fires destroy home of one of the world’s rarest birds in Brazil’s Pantanal
- Another ICMBio president resigns
- Spix’s macaws moved to outdoor aviaries
- You-tube video on reintroduction project
- ICMBio statement 11th March 2020
- Press release by ICMBio 19-2-2020
- Good news from Brazil
- Loro Parque Foundation has reintroduced six Lear’s into the wild in Brazil
- Report on hyacinths feeding on termites
- Update report on the fire situation in the Pantanal
- Paper on breeding performance of the Lear's Macaw in the wild
- Fires in the Pantanal
- Ten miles for the Spix's Macaw