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Promoting sustainable livestock farming is one of the pillars of the Program for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Moxos Plains

October 27, 20230Comments

Promoting sustainable livestock farming, compatible with conservation, based on market mechanisms of financial incentives, is one of the strategies of the Program for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Moxos Plains. The presentation of…

Cock-tailed Tyrant

November 7, 20160Comments

Cock-tailed Tyrants perche in tall grass gleaning for insects which they catch in the air. (Photo: Daniel Alarcón) November Cock-tailed Tyrant Scientific name: Alectrurus tricolor Spanish name: Tirano cola de abanico, avioncito Status: Vulnerable (IUCN red list of endangered species) Habitat and behaviour:…

Big Day at Barba Azul Nature Reserve: New record of 179 species in one day

October 24, 20160Comments

Reserve coordinator Tjalle Boorsma, and researcher of the University of Wageningen, Fabian Meijer set out for a “Barba Azul Big Day”. Situated in the heart of the Beni savannah, the Barba Azul Nature Reserve is a…

Beefing up sustainable cattle-ranching is a bargain for Bolivia and its birds

September 10, 20160Comments

Best practices to optimize the use of grasslands for beef production suit perfectly the objectives of conservationists too. That’s how profit and sustainability go hand in hand.(Photo:Márton Hardy) Sustainability and profit should go hand in hand…

First-ever record of White-eared Opossum for Beni Department in the Barba Azul Nature Reserve

July 15, 20160Comments

Further studies will have to determine the impact this news species on the nest-box programe (Photo: Luis Miguel Ortega) This would be the first ever documented record of the White-eared Opossum (Didelphis albiventris) for the Beni…

The discovery of a new rainy-season roosting site of the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw

July 7, 20160Comments

Fifteen birds were recorded at a roosting site, 40 Km North of the Barba Azul Nature Reserve in an area where BTM were not known to exist. (Photo: Sebastian K. Herzog) In January 2016, Cornell Lab…

Critically Endangered macaw chicks fly the nest boxes

July 4, 20160Comments

Blue-throated Macaw chicks in their nest box Last year, we celebrated as 10 Blue-throated Macaw chicks safely hatched and fledged from our artificial nest boxes. This is fantastic news for a Critically Endangered species that is being driven…

Photos: Barba Azul Nature Reserve

May 15, 20150Comments

Discover the wildlife of the Barba Azul Nature Reserve, where the Beni savanna meets the foot of the Amazon The Barba Azul Nature Reserve in northern Bolivia is the world's first protected area for the…

Video: Why are savannas important?

May 13, 20150Comments

Explore the beauty of the Barba Azul Nature Reserve and the importance of this Beni savanna habitat in northern Bolivia Tropical savannas cover a third of the world's land surface but are the least protected…

Running the length of South America for wildlife

May 12, 20150Comments

Discover what drove a British couple to wake up in the morning and run for 25 miles – every day, for over a year... Katharine and David Lowrie were not our average ecotourists, coming to…

Barba Azul Nature Reserve doubles in size

May 12, 20150Comments

Early this year, Armonía celebrated doubling the size of the Barba Azul Nature Reserve for the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw The reserve now stretches across 27,180 acres (11,000 hectares) of Beni savanna and palm forest…

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