New reliable data on global population size and trends is helping the conservation this Critically Endangered species. As the dry season draws to an end in the Beni Savannas of northern Bolivia, the Blue-throated Macaw gets ready for the breeding season and begin their amazing mating spectacle. Blue-throated Macaws live…
Press ReleaseDutch ecologist Tjalle Boorsma manages international conservation project for Blue-throated Macaw in Barba Azul Nature Reserve and beats more than 120 other contestants by winning the FFN Award 2020 Arnhem, 12 March 2020. Out of one hundred and twenty-four candidates from all over the world three inspiring natural leaders…
The Birds of Bolivia Field Guide is available for the first time ever for sale in the US and abroad. Printed in Bolivia in late 2016, the first edition of this field guide has always been a hard-to-get rarity due to the unfortunate issue of international logistics and associated high…
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…
