News - 2013

BBC at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation in Qatar

Sir David Attenborough has just been filming with a BBC crew at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation in Qatar

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The coming International Parrot Convention in Tenerife

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Report on keeping and breeding of the Spix's Macaw

A really interesting report which was published in the May 1991 issue of the Swiss birdkeepers' magazine Gefiederter Freund

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Translation of the article in the Swiss financial journal

The translation promised of the article published in the Swiss financial journal Bilanz on 17th May 2013

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The final report from the ZGAP

Te final report by Anton Sojer translated by me and published in the ZGAP newsletter

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Work in progress

Working on the translation of several documents

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Article from a Swiss financial newspaper

Explanation about a puzzling situation with the Spix's Macaw in Switzerland and maybe elsewhere

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Update on the Spix's Macaw project from Martin Guth

I have just received an update on the Spix's Macaw project from Martin Guth of ACTP, Germany

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Translation of the papers from the ZGAP

Provide much information about the very first measures taken to try to conserve the species

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Video of the artificial insemination at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation

Following the ground-breaking news of the success of artificial insemination at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation in Qatar

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Artificial insemination at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation

They have succeeded in hatching two chicks from a female Spix's Macaw artificially inseminated

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Spix's Macaw conservation by the ZGAP

Some early documentation on Spix's Macaw conservation by the ZGAP in Germany

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Statement from Loro Parque Fundación

Statement on the recent repatriation of the Spix's Macaws held there to Brazil

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Old film about the repatriation of Spix's Macaw

It relates to the repatriation of two Spix's Macaws from Paraguay to Brazil

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The arrival at São Paulo of the two Spix's Macaws

YouTube video about the arrival of two Spix's Macaws at São Paulo's Guaruhlos airport on 26th February

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The last Spix's Macaw in the wild

A short film about the footage of the last Spix's Macaw in the wild taken in 1990

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Two Spix's Macaws transferred to Brazil

Felicitas and Paula have been transferred to Brazil from ACTP in Germany

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Selling Spix's Macaws

An advertisement that appeared in 1979 in "Dansk Fuglehold" about selling Spix's Macaws

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Interview with Ryan Watson

An interesting interview with Ryan Watson, which was published in Cage & Aviary Birds in November 2011

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Articles from AFA Watchbird

Article about the transfer of a Spix's macaw held at that time at Walsrode Bird Park in Germany to Brazil

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