Panama Wildlife Conservation (PWCC) is dedicated to conserving biodiversity, animal species and their habitats through collaboration with residents and organisations in Panama. PWCC has been working to protect Great Green Macaw habitat in Cerro Hoya National Park (CHNP), located on the Azuero Peninsula in the country’s south. This area and its buffer zones have been subjected to the most severe habitat degradation in the country through agriculture and drought. Conservation efforts include planting native plants and trees important to the macaws, monitoring the wild population and learning about their ecology and threats to their survival.

ADOPTA Bosque is dedicated to the conservation of Panama’s unique ecosystems. The team works with indigenous territories La Marea and Bajo Lepe in the Darién region, which borders Colombia and may be important strongholds for Great Green Macaws. ADOPTA biologists engage local communities in education and awareness programs to change perceptions of the macaws to help minimise damaging slash-and-burn agriculture practices and poaching activities, involve local people in citizen science work such as nest box construction, installation and monitoring, restore and protect crucial forest and collaborate in regional conservation efforts with Colombia and Costa Rica.

In 2010, WPT partner Ara Manzanillo, then The Ara Project, initiated a Great Green Macaw reintroduction project in the South Caribbean region of Costa Rica to establish a self-sustaining population there and have the group eventually link with the remaining populations in northern Costa Rica. The team works to restore key forests and installs nest boxes to increase breeding success.