April 17th, 2010
Courthouse News Service reported that the environmentalist group, WildEarth Guardians, petitioned the American Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, to force the government to implement a recovery plan for the last surviving parrot species in the United States.
February 21st, 2010
Farmers in New South Wales, Australia, are helping to increase the population of endangered birds and mammals by partitioning their land for conservation, according to a report from the Sydney Morning Herald. Landowners, who, in return, are being paid market rates for quarantining the land for 15 years, are enthusiastically joining the $37.5 million Federal Government scheme which is designed to conserve ecologically rare areas.
February 21st, 2010
The wild population of the Tucumán Parrot (Amazona tucumana) is in a worse situation than previously thought, and it should be included in a higher category of threat, moving from “Near-threatened” to “Vulnerable” in the IUCN Red List of threatened species.
February 21st, 2010
From the BBC’s Earth News website comes a report on how the Iron Curtain left its mark on the wildlife of Continental Europe. Referring to an article which appeared in the journal Biological Conservation, Earth News editor, Matt Walker, says that during the 46 years in which Europe was divided; far fewer alien bird species were taken into the Eastern bloc countries.
February 9th, 2010
The Institute for Research and Nature Conservation (Instituto de Pesquisa e Conservação da Natureza – Idéia Ambiental) of Curitiba, Brazil, is conducting a project for the conservation of the Red-browed Amazon (Amazona rhodocorytha) in the wild, and in 2006 - as an insurance policy - also began a parallel project to establish a captive breeding programme in the city.
January 20th, 2010
The southern coast of Western Australia saw very high temperatures last week which are believed to be the primary cause of death for approximately 150 white-tailed black cockatoos.
January 13th, 2010
From Australia we hear that a team of researchers studying the breeding habits of the Night Parrot are focussing their efforts on North West Queensland, in an attempt to learn more about this extremely rare bird.
January 13th, 2010
ABC News reports that researchers at Charles Sturt University are inviting the Australian public to help with a new study into a virus that kills birds' feathers, leaving them unable to fly.
December 12th, 2009
From New Zealand News websites; New Zealand’s Department of Conservation released evidence the red-crowned parakeet has successfully bred on Motutapu Island, an event that has been absent for 100 years.
