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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

These 6 areas are located where there are the most yellow-naped parrots in all of Guatemala, which is along the pacific coast of the country

The film demonstrates how and why community conservation can work, and must work. If the local people are not engaged and committed, then th

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

There is a town in Nicaragua known as Esperanza, which means “Hope” in Spanish. Right now it doesn’t feel as if there is much hope there, as

Often people imagine the life of a field conservationist as being exciting. It can be, but it’s also a march through discomfort and unexpec

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

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

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

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

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

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

LoraKim is deep in the field in Guyana right now and I had not heard from her for a number of days. I've learned through the years not t

We at One Earth Conservation conduct all of our conservation work in collaboration with others. Today, as LoraKim is in the field in Guyana,

Santiago Lacuth, our field coordinator in Honduras wrote a song where he sings about his beloved ancestral lands. In this video, sung in Mis

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

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

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

Anthropologists, economists, and philosophers have argued that nonprofits continue the colonization process by benefiting from a system that

We parrots are birds of peace. It's not only doves that are working towards less conflict and violence - parrots too and the people who