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Sep 15
5 min

Coming Round the Sun Through Hard Times

Thank you for helping One Earth Conservation to make the dream of the good life for people and parrots a possibility! Please join us!

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Parrot Researchers Group: A path to understanding, conservation, and love

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Sep 1
2 min

Parrot Researchers Group: A path to understanding, conservation, and love

Scientists, conservationists and field biologists are celebrating ten years of working together to better understand the lives of parrots an

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Accountability in Conservation: Making Love Real

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Aug 18
4 min

Accountability in Conservation: Making Love Real

We yearn for accountability, for to be accountable means that you count, you matter. It means that you belong. I believe we need more belong

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Aug 4
4 min

Vision from a Blind Scarlet Macaw

The abundance of this place, the songs of its people and its birds, will be health and wisdom and indwelling light. This is no paradisal

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jul 14
3 min

The Beauty and the Tragedy

We are here to witness to the tragedy and the loss of beauty, so that life can be preserved.

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jul 1
2 min

Unconditional Solidarity - SI!

Liberation involves the liberation of the earth to restore maximum creativity and deep, universal, and unconditional solidarity.

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jun 17
4 min

Trust (even when birds die)

Come, let us trust in our capacity for kindness, for presence, for care, and to love. Come, join the Parrot Conservation Corps.

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jun 3
2 min

Take My Breath Away

Just as long as we have breath, we must answer yes to your life, though with pain you made your way, may hope meet you each day.

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

May 20
4 min

Transformative Conservation

TC in the context of climate change depends on such “outer” (societal) and “inner” (personal) transformations supporting and reinforcing one

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Saving the World From Where You Are by Supporting Community Conservation Where They Are

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

May 6
3 min

Saving the World From Where You Are by Supporting Community Conservation Where They Are

We know how to do conservation, with communities, but the reality of government, societal and ecological fragility is always threatening to

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Every Day Earth Day for Parrot Conservationists

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Apr 22
3 min

Every Day Earth Day for Parrot Conservationists

Conservationists impact parrots’ lives for the better all the time. They develop a heart inspired touch that pervades their work.

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Apr 8
3 min

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Yes, we need birds in this time of a pandemic, and the many other disasters happening to life on earth. They foster biodiversity and help ea

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Mar 24
4 min

Parrot Conservation in Time of Covid-19

Though it may seem like things have stopped throughout the world, those who carry out essential services are still taking risks to care for

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Gail Koelln

Mar 17
2 min

COVID-19 in Honduras and its Impact

Re COVID-19 in Honduras: "...we are a poor country...many people...use what they work during the day to live on that day..." Can you help?

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Mar 10
3 min

The Story of Anayda and Rosa

Anayda and Rosa (This is blog was originally published in 2016) Rosa came into this world weighing maybe 20 grams, all pink with unruly y...

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Gail Koelln

Mar 3
2 min

Conservation Hero of the Day??

I spent Monday afternoon at Rite Aid and became the unofficial conservation hero of the day!

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Gail Koelln

Feb 20
2 min

How to Build a Parrot Conservationist

The foundation of the work of One Earth Conservation is that anyone and everyone can be a wildlife conservationist, with our focus being on

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Feb 4
3 min

It's a Harpy Day in the Neighborhood

My parrot conservation exploratory trip to French Guiana was a success, that is, if I let go of the devastating low number of parrots I saw.

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jan 22
2 min

Liberating Wings

I agree that we must take care of the most oppressed, and ourselves as well. To do so we need to get at the root causes that lead to dominat

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Dec 31, 2019
8 min

The Grace of Beauty and Tragedy

The heartache of conservation mixes with the awe of life and slowly over the years I have learned that there is no beauty without tragedy.

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