Country: Colombia
Presentation : Real conservation of Colombia’s most endangered parrots
Juan Carlos Noreña Tobón Colombian biologist, ornithologist and nature photographer, director of Fundación Vida Silvestre and director of the Risarada Bird Festival. Researcher in the projects carried out by Loro Parque Fundación in Colombia with two species of parrots Hapalopsittaca fuertesi and Ognorhynchus icterotis, which seeks, apart from research and field work, to generate knowledge and a sense of belonging in the population for their protection and conservation.
He is the promoter of several public actions aimed at turning birds into symbols of each of the 14 communities of the department of Risaralda, involving them in municipal agreements. With these projects he has managed to turn the department of Risaralda (Colombia) into “a model of biodiversity conservation for the world”, also made official by means of a departmental ordinance.
In the same way, the community of Pereira, by municipal agreement, has been declared a “centre of world importance for birdwatching”, and in the same arrangement, three important avenues in the city have been renamed after birds. Likewise, all 50 cable car cabins that pass through the city bear the image and name of a bird.
He is now in the process of getting each of the streets in the municipalities also named after birds and other animals to generate greater knowledge and a sense of belonging in the population and to truly make Risarada a model of biodiversity conservation for the world. He has achieved that the Indigo-winged parrot (Hapalopsittaca fuertesi) is the heraldic bird of the municipality of Santa Rosa de Cabal and is in the process of obtaining the consent of the municipality for the Yellow-eared Parrot (Ognorhynchus icterotis) to become the emblematic bird of the community of Guática.
Source: https://www.loroparque-fundacion.org/congreso-papagayos/en/speakers/
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