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Mar 23
2 min

RIVER TRANSECTS IN PARROT POPULATION MONITORING - Come Play with Us!

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

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Parrot Conservationists' Spirits Live On in Us

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jan 25
2 min

Parrot Conservationists' Spirits Live On in Us

Parrot conservationists remind me of Wendell Berry whose writings say to me, “If we don’t know where we are, we don’t know who we are.”

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

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

May 6, 2020
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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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Apr 8, 2020
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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Gail Koelln

Feb 20, 2020
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, 2020
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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by LoraKim Joyner and Gail Koelln

Nov 12, 2019
2 min

Four and Five on the Parrots List

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

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by LoraKim Joyner and Gail Koelln

Oct 29, 2019
2 min

Beauty with a Yellow Face

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

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Termites and the Endangered Yellow-faced Parrots of Paraguay

by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Sep 18, 2019
4 min

Termites and the Endangered Yellow-faced Parrots of Paraguay

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

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Burning Love: A Parrot Shows How to Put Out Fires of Human Desire

by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Sep 5, 2019
3 min

Burning Love: A Parrot Shows How to Put Out Fires of Human Desire

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

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Apr 18, 2019
3 min

A New Dawn for Parrot Conservation

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

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Apr 11, 2019
3 min

Parrot's Patience Wearing Thin

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

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Mar 19, 2019
4 min

Parrot Conservation is a Team Sport

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

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Feb 20, 2019
2 min

How To Keep Parrots Flying Free

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

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Feb 4, 2019
3 min

Conservation: Take a Life, Give a Life

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

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jan 24, 2019
3 min

Trucked on the Letham Road, Guyana

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

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Oct 1, 2018
3 min

Surveying Parrots, Dreams, and Parks

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

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Mountains of Hope for Parrots in Paraguay

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Sep 25, 2018
2 min

Mountains of Hope for Parrots in Paraguay

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

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Triple Alliance of Compassion, Awareness, and Hard Work: Saving the Parrots of Paraguay

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Sep 19, 2018
2 min

Triple Alliance of Compassion, Awareness, and Hard Work: Saving the Parrots of Paraguay

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

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Aug 14, 2018
4 min

Toasting Parrots Before They Are Toast

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

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