Program: Puerto Rican Amazon Recovery
Puerto Rican Amazons are at serious risk from deforestation and increasingly severe weather events. They once occurred throughout their native island; they are now confined to 0.2% of their former range where they are affected by habitat loss, native and feral predators and increasingly severe weather events. After falling to a low of 13 birds in 1975, by 2017 there were more than 400 at breeding facilities and 130 wild parrots. That year 70-80 wild birds were lost to Hurricane Maria. Today, thanks to intensive recovery efforts there are more than 200 in the wild.
The World Parrot Trust, in collaboration with the Puerto Rican Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER), the US Forestry Service and US Fish and Wildlife, has been supporting the breeding program at Río Abajo aviary by backing research and funding infrastructure, as well as providing emergency funding and technical help after severe weather events.
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Learn how the World Parrot Trust is supporting Puerto Rican Amazons.
