Women and Parrots Share Loss and Strength
A mother scarlet macaw lost her chicks twice to poachers in the same year. Her loss echoes our own, as does her strength.
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LoraKim Joyner
- Jul 7, 2021
Protecting Parrots: Nesting Season 2020-2021
Pictures and statistics of One Earth Conservation's 2020-2021 parrot nesting season presented along with poetry.
LoraKim Joyner
- Feb 22, 2021
Conservación Transformadora para Poner Fin a la Muerte Trágica
¡Estoy cansada de la muerte!Quiero trabajar por la vida, arriesgando todo lo que pueda por la transformación de las prácticas de la sociedad
LoraKim Joyner
- Aug 4, 2020
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
by LoraKim Joyner and Gail Koelln
- Oct 29, 2019
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
by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Sep 18, 2019
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
by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Sep 11, 2019
A Broken Earth: We Must Re-parrot (repair it)!
Every parrot in every home is linked back to the devastating trade. This fact might elicit some shame or anger, but mostly it is a statement
by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Jun 19, 2019
Sleeping Under Parrots and Stars
What do you do when there aren’t many of a particular species left on the planet? You face the reality, dig into hope, team up, and do the
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Jun 11, 2019
One Earth Conservation Goes to Washington
Before the meetings I discovered my inner sixth-grader this past week when Gail Koelln and I were the guests of the US Fish and Wildlife Ser
by Gail Koelln
- May 14, 2019
Take Them or Leave Them
As you know, One Earth Conservation works on a daily basis to help some of the most endangered parrots in the world. Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Apr 17, 2019
Merchants and Parrots: Selling Parrots is Selling Our Souls, Freeing Parrots is Freeing Ourselves
Only by diminishing our ego's need to dominate, can we live truly free. Love dissolves the bars of perceived separation. We live joined
LoraKim Joyner
- Mar 19, 2019
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
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Feb 25, 2019
Ring of Fire
Surrounded by a ring of fire. All around us we see evidence of the destructive nature of nature. This includes human nature, for it is wide
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Feb 20, 2019
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
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Feb 12, 2019
Parrots and People Carry Messages
We are journeying up and down the Pacific coast of Guatemala in the range of the endangered yellow-naped amazon. What message do we deliver
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Jan 29, 2019
eBird and gBird (Gone-birds)
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
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Dec 18, 2018
Dreaming Big
I dream that for every homed bird in the world, which number, 249,651,000, the owners contribute $1.00 for conservation. That comes to near
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Dec 12, 2018
Parrots Die by the Bucketful
This particular batch of ten scarlet macaw chicks were being transported in a bucket in the back of a truck traveling along the dirt road t
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Dec 4, 2018
Breaking the Illegal Wildlife Trade Chain Through Economic Support
Every conservation project is an art, and a dance of relationships, so direct community employment may not work in every region, with every
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Oct 30, 2018
Rainbow Over Guatemala - Returning the Scarlet Macaw
Our hope is that the colors that once flew here - the oranges, the reds, and yellows of the scarlet macaw - return to Southern Guatemala. T
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