Laney Rickman Reserve in Bolivia protects the largest known breeding population of the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw against poachers and habitat loss due to cattle ranching. In charge of Armonía´s reserve and the nestbox program is park ranger César Flores, once a cattle rancher, today, conservationist and protector of the…
For eight years, northern Blue-throated Macaws have never shown an iota of interest in nestboxes at Asociación Armonía’s Barba Azul Nature Reserve. What makes this more perplexing is that the southern Blue-throated Macaws love nestboxes. At the southern Laney Rickman Blue-throated Macaw Reserve, Blue-throats have used 26 nestboxes, fledging 81…
(Santa Cruz, Bolivia, June 28th 2019) A record number of Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw chicks fledged from nest boxes at Asociación Armonía’s Laney Rickman Blue-throated Macaw Reserve in Bolivia. Twelve chicks fledged from nest boxes during the 2018-2019 breeding season. This resulted in a total of 81 juvenile Blue-throated Macaws…
In 2018 BirdLife International partners from the Americas elected new members of the Executive Comitee for BirdLife Americas Regional Council. Members of the new council are renown conservationist from Canada, Bolivia, EE.UU. Panama and Paraguay. Alberto Yanosky (Paraguay) was elected as chair of the committee formed by Andrew Couturier (Canada),…
Nine authors and thirteen artists spent eleven years to gather in a single field guide the 1435 species of the sixth most diverse country in bird species: Bolivia. The “Birds of Bolivia – Field Guide” was long overdue and fills a major ornithological void both within and beyond the country’s…
The strategic guidelines of the “Conservation and Restoration Plan for Polylepis forests of Madidi and Cotapata National Parks” were designed in cooperation with key local actors and support from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF). This tool is a basis for future conservation, habitat restoration and sustainable development in these…
Barba Azul Nature Reserve is completing the long-awaited dining facility supported by American Bird Conservancy and International Conservation Fund of Canada, one of the remaining infrastructure constructions needed to complete our tourism offer. It is located looking over the beautiful Omi River and constructed as a traditional “maloca” to keep…
Bolivia se posicionó en cuarto lugar en el October Big Day evento mundial de observación de aves. Este sábado 6 de octubre miles de aficionados bolivianos participaron en la competencia mundial de avistamiento de aves conocido como October Big Day (el Gran Día de Octubre ), un evento que en…
(Santa Cruz, Bolivia. August 20, 2018) The Bolivian conservation organization Asociación Armonía has purchased the most important nesting area of the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw in a joint effort involving four leading conservation groups – American Bird Conservancy, International Conservation Fund of Canada, IUCN Netherlands, and World Land Trust. Over…
The first checklist on eBird for the Tucuman Parrot Nature Reserve reveals the extraordinary avifauna of this humid area of mixed Tucuman and Cloud Forests of southern Bolivia. Dozens of Tucuman Parrots, four species of warbling finches, Giant Antshrike, wrens, and hummingbirds are enough highlights to make the Reserve a…
