LPF NEWS
January 21st, 2021 | by
Rafael Zamora PadronThe end of a year and the beginning of the next, mark a frontier for the management of birds under human care. At this time of the season the enclosures have to be prepared to receive a new breeding season, which may start in...
Conservation projects
January 8th, 2021 | by
David WaughOf Indonesia’s staggering total of 17,508 islands, the name of a relatively small one, Komodo, has been conferred ona formidable species of monitor lizard which lives there. This of course is the Komodo dragon (Varanus...
Conservation projects
January 4th, 2021 | by
David WaughIn many places of the world where centres take in and provide professional care to sick, injured and confiscated wild animals, most will include rehabilitation as part of their mission, which implies the return of the animals to...
LPF NEWS
December 2nd, 2020 | by
Rafael Zamora PadronIn these days, when the planet and its inhabitants are facing to consequences of an extraordinary viral epidemic, the parrots in our latitudes are at the final of their breeding activity. Thus, it is convenient to remind sanitary...
Conservation projects
November 28th, 2020 | by
David WaughThe flight calls of Vinaceous-breasted Parrots (Amazona vinacea) lingered in the chill air of the austral winter dawn in southern Brazil. However, no parrots were seen, because the dense early morning mist had not dispersed by...
Conservation projects
October 28th, 2020 | by
David WaughIn 1644 a Dutch artist painted an image which turned out to be the first record of the Grey-breasted Parakeet (Pyrrhura griseipectus), a severely threatened species endemic to north-eastern Brazil. The parakeet was formally...
Conservation projects
October 19th, 2020 | by
David WaughNews has arrived about a phenomenon that many of us suspected was true, but in practice has remained unexamined objectively until now, not least due to the difficulties of estimating species abundances in the wild. Poachers do...
Conservation projects
October 12th, 2020 | by
David WaughExciting news has recently arrived of a landmark event in the Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Program (PCCP), the long-term endeavour to bring-about the recovery of this ‘Critically Endangered’ species endemic to the...
Conservation projects
September 23rd, 2020 | by
David WaughGood news is always welcome in these trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic, and such news has recently arrived from Paso Pacífico, a Nicaraguan NGO engaged in conservation activities in that country. Paso Pacífico’s mission...
Conservation projects
September 16th, 2020 | by
David WaughYou must really like Swift Parrots (Lathamus discolor) if throughout sixteen years you make a grand total of 20,155 observations of them. This accolade goes to Dr. Andrew Hingston of the University of Tasmania, who observed the...
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