At the moment is World Parrot Day, after we have a good time a number of the most unimaginable birds to grace the skies throughout our planet. Of this colourful number of birds, the nice inexperienced macaw is likely one of the most radiant, and sadly, additionally some of the Critically Endangered. Lower than 1,000 nice inexperienced macaws stay throughout Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama as a consequence of habitat loss. WCN’s Conservation Accomplice, Macaw Restoration Community (MRN), is devoted to saving nice inexperienced macaws. Roughly 300 of those macaws stay in Costa Rica, the place MRN works, and their new marketing campaign seeks so as to add extra macaws to that rely.
A wild nice inexperienced macaw.
Starting immediately, MRN is launching a fundraising marketing campaign to reintroduce 27 nice inexperienced macaw juveniles from their Punta Islita Breeding Heart right into a model new launch web site in northern Costa Rica. That is solely the primary batch of a bigger group of juveniles that they plan to launch. Final 12 months, MRN launched 14 scarlet macaws from Punta Islita into the wild, and so they wish to do much more this 12 months with nice inexperienced macaws. Since these nice inexperienced macaws are being launched in a brand new space and require monitoring gear and a area staff to make sure they keep protected, MRN should increase roughly $88,000 for this mission. Fortuitously, they’ve already managed to lift most of that quantity, that means they solely want to lift about $27,000 extra for this launch to be a hit.
Nice inexperienced macaws able to be launched.
From now till June 22, you’ll be able to donate to MRN to help this main nice inexperienced macaw reintroduction marketing campaign. It’s also possible to join a Zoom session on Thursday, June 13 at 2:00pm (CST) to listen to members of the MRN staff speak concerning the upcoming launch and reply your questions.
Assist return greatness to the forests of Costa Rica and provides these magnificent nice inexperienced macaws the help they want to reach the wild.
Autor David Vasquez
