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Discoveries from 2020 Nest Search Expedition Guide Next Steps for Blue-throated Macaw Research and Conservation

Breeding Blue-throated Macaws posed playfully on dead Moriche palm nest (Photo: Tjalle Boorsma – Asociacion Armonia). 2020 Blue-throated Macaw rainy season search expedition results: ⬥10 Blue-throated Macaw nests discovered in the northwestern subpopulation⬥3 unknown Blue-throated Macaw breeding sites discovered⬥Approximately 100 Blue-throated Macaws observed in Llanos de Moxos during rainy season…

Conservation world calls on UN to make a ‘healthy natural environment’ a human right

BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK: Today, in an open letter to the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, the leading global conservation partnership, BirdLife International, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by calling for the UN to take a bold and unprecedented step: declare a healthy natural environment a fundamental…

Community Bird-Based Tourism Key to Sustainability at Red-fronted Macaw Reserve

Community bird-based tourism has become relevant for the sustainability of the Red-fronted Macaw Community Reserve. While offering an opportunity where the tourist is supporting a good cause, the communities involved with the Reserve are becoming more conscientious protectors of the Red-fronted Macaw while benefiting from a diversified, more stable economy…

More Mysteries of Blue-throated Macaw Revealed Through Tracking Study

Mysteries solved about the Blue-throated Macaws’ migration routes.

BOLIVIAN NATURE CONSERVATION PROJECT WINS PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

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…

Now Available Worldwide, Birds of Bolivia Field Guide, Revised First Edition

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…

From Cattle Rancher to Macaw Reserve Ranger: Meet Ranger César Flores

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…

Northern Blue-throated Macaws highly interested in the new Penthouse nestbox design at Barba Azul Nature Reserve

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…

New Nest Box Record at Laney Rickman Blue-throated Macaw Reserve

(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…

New executive commitee for BirdLife America´s regional council elected

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 renowned conservationists from Canada, Bolivia, the US, Panama and Paraguay. Alberto Yanosky (Paraguay) was elected as chair of the committee formed by Andrew Couturier…

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Discoveries from 2020 Nest Search Expedition Guide Next Steps for Blue-throated Macaw Research and Conservation

Conservation world calls on UN to make a ‘healthy natural environment’ a human right

Community Bird-Based Tourism Key to Sustainability at Red-fronted Macaw Reserve

More Mysteries of Blue-throated Macaw Revealed Through Tracking Study

BOLIVIAN NATURE CONSERVATION PROJECT WINS PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

Now Available Worldwide, Birds of Bolivia Field Guide, Revised First Edition

From Cattle Rancher to Macaw Reserve Ranger: Meet Ranger César Flores

Northern Blue-throated Macaws highly interested in the new Penthouse nestbox design at Barba Azul Nature Reserve

New Nest Box Record at Laney Rickman Blue-throated Macaw Reserve

New executive commitee for BirdLife America´s regional council elected

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Discoveries from 2020 Nest Search Expedition Guide Next Steps for Blue-throated Macaw Research and Conservation

Conservation world calls on UN to make a ‘healthy natural environment’ a human right

Community Bird-Based Tourism Key to Sustainability at Red-fronted Macaw Reserve

More Mysteries of Blue-throated Macaw Revealed Through Tracking Study

BOLIVIAN NATURE CONSERVATION PROJECT WINS PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

Sustainable Ranching Guide aims to increase Habitat Conservation in the Beni

Volunteer Opportunities at Barba Azul Nature Reserve and Laney Rickman Reserve

Now Available Worldwide, Birds of Bolivia Field Guide, Revised First Edition

From Cattle Rancher to Macaw Reserve Ranger: Meet Ranger César Flores

Northern Blue-throated Macaws highly interested in the new Penthouse nestbox design at Barba Azul Nature Reserve

More Mysteries of Blue-throated Macaw Revealed Through Tracking Study

Sustainable Ranching Guide aims to increase Habitat Conservation in the Beni

Volunteer Opportunities at Barba Azul Nature Reserve and Laney Rickman Reserve

Record sighting of 155 Blue-throated Macaws confirms steady population growth at Barba Azul Nature Reserve

Record number of nine Blue-throated Macaw chicks fledged from Armonía nest boxes