One Earth Conservation

Birds are good for us - they help us come into a sense of peaceful interconnection.

n July Honduras and Guatemala came together to do the first binational count of the endangered yellow-headed parrot. We found low numbers.

During August 2021 a diverse team came together to count the vinaceous-breasted amazon at Limoy Reserve in Paraguay.

Parrot team in Guatemala, April 2021, with Dr. LoraKim Joyner This week, One Earth Conservation teams up with Cuerpo de Conservación in...

To assess the parrot populations in hard to reach areas, we experimented with a methodology to survey parrot populations from rivers.

The lead parrot conservationist told me on the last day, “This parrot project has benefited so many people on this island.”  I teared up, kn

In 2017, One Earth Conservation invited visitors from the United States to join us on a trip to Ometepe Island in Nicaragua to learn about a

The past is full of anguish and loss in these colonized areas of Latin America, but there is still an ever present beauty in the people and

I was ushered quickly towards the school building where the leaders were meeting, when a scarlet macaw swooped over me to land in the trees

In every country I work, I hear one story after another about how international buyers come to an area to buy adult birds, chicks and/or egg

Torn, I have nevertheless made a decision to no longer enter parrot data on eBird, at least temporarily.  Given the fact that parrots are ne

Every conservation project is an art, and a dance of relationships, so direct community employment may not work in every region, with every

Okay, first off, there is no such thing as "perfection" in conservation. It's an art that depends on so many factors, and the

We need to go beyond this initial survey and impressions, and any defeatist refrain of "it's no use,"  to return to the area t

After the count we toured the facilities at the ranger station and were impressed. Though the laboratory building is currently without water

We who love Paraguay and her wildlife assert that we will make a stand here, saying, "Let the parrots live well along with this country

There is a bird known as the vinaceous-breasted parrot (Amazona vinacea) of South America. The name means “color of red wine,” descriptive o

The Rupununi savannah in Guyana is full of life. We are here to count the red-bellied macaw that nests, roosts, and feeds in the Ite palms.

We were glad to know that these parrots still exist on the coast, but frightened to know how few and how heavy is the poaching pressure. Wha

We began by telling them why we were there in Guyana. I explained because we in North America had lost our only parrot species, the Carolina