One Earth Conservation

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

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

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

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.

Last week just got away from me, so I’m blogging today about both the fourth and fifth parrots on LoraKim’s list of the world’s most beautif

Let’s talk, today, about the third bird on LoraKim Joyner’s list of the most beautiful parrots, which is the yellow-faced parrot. The conser

During a nest watch of yellow-naped amazons, I was dreaming in the sun…that one day when those with power and privilege are spied out amongs

When in Paraguay  over the last 3 weeks, it was the parrot breeding season. I was outside for 12 days, all day, and nearly every day I was p

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

I wish you deep meaning in your love for parrots, and to all of us that have relationships to them, and I also know that we must face the ha

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

Perhaps that is what conservation is - to give back the lives we have taken. And success in the final accounting is not whether the species

From the Get Real Dictionary: “field conservation (n): an approach to the preservation of species and ecosystems primarily by attending to n

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 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