Conservation and Research

Traveling upriver

Parrot Blogger: Elizabeth Hobson | Dec 14, 2009

To get to the Tambopata Research Center, my destination for the summer, I needed to travel by boat up the Tambopata River. We were ferried upriver in large canoe-like boats, wide enough to seat two people abreast with a walkway down the center. One person mans the outboard motor on the back and the...

Release successes

Parrot Blogger: Andre Saidenberg | Dec 12, 2009

Just a quick update about some of the release efforts by Bichos da Mata. These are old news actually but I wanted to share with you providing some background of what has been done before we continue with the news from the latest releases carried out in October.

The group of seriously endangered...

Hello from Brazil

Parrot Blogger: Andre Saidenberg | Dec 10, 2009

I would like to thank the WPT for inviting me to write this blog. I hope to share with all World Parrot Trust supporters some quick updates on parrot conservation in Brazil.

I’ll try to bring news from the field where recently I’m most involved: Rehabilitation and release of confiscated parrots...

Las Aventuras de Liz en Tambopata

Parrot Blogger: Elizabeth Hobson | Dec 10, 2009

I was bitten by the field research bug relatively early in life. I spent a summer in high school working as an intern for the fisheries department, but soon moved over to bird work. Since then, I have been lucky enough to work in some beautiful areas of the world with some amazing wildlife. As an...