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LoraKim Joyner
May 6, 2020
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


LoraKim Joyner
Apr 8, 2020
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


Gail Koelln
Feb 20, 2020
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


LoraKim Joyner
Feb 4, 2020
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.


by LoraKim Joyner and Gail Koelln
Nov 12, 2019
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


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 5, 2019
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


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Apr 18, 2019
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


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Apr 11, 2019
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


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 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 4, 2019
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


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jan 24, 2019
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


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Oct 1, 2018
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


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Sep 25, 2018
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


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Sep 19, 2018
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


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Aug 14, 2018
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


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jul 11, 2018
Moon Rising Over Macaws in Guyana
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.


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jun 5, 2018
Future Parrot Conservationists of Guyana
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
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