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Yesterday we posted an interview with Mr Tri Prayudhi, ProFauna Indonesia’s Campaign Officer. ProFauna works to protect the wildlife of Indonesia - which, of course, includes many species of large - and often very rare now - cockatoos.
While I was researching our parrot Month I came across a website called MyToos.com, which aims - [...]

The Republic of Indonesia in Southeast Asia comprises a staggering 17,508 islands, about 6,000 of which are inhabited. It is the world’s largest archipelagic state and with a population of 222 million people (according to 2006 figures) it is also the world’s fourth most populous country.
Indonesia’s size, tropical climate, and archipelagic geography, support the [...]

I’ve learnt many things while I’ve been organsing ‘Parrot Month’ - what a Green-rumped Parrotlet needs to breed, how to pronounce ‘Tambopata‘, what happened to the Spix’s Macaw etc etc but the one thing that’s going to stick with me the most is how dedicated and how generous with their data the researchers and conservationists [...]

Project Bird Watch and Indonesian Parrot Project (Banner by Sparkling Hearts Sanctuary LLC. Flying Moluccan cockatoo photos courtesy of Andrew Bradnan)
 
DYING IN THE “SAFETY” NET (Part Two)
Dr Stewart Metz

(For Part One, please go to Dying in the Safety Net: Part One)
 
In the first part of this blog, I expressed my concern about an issue that [...]