19/12/2018
Following
nearly 24 years of targeted conservation across its range in Brazil, Red-tailed Amazon is no longer considered a
threatened species.
Over this
period, the species has been downgraded on the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List from Endangered to Vulnerable and
latterly, at the end of 2017, Near Threatened.
This
positive change in status has not happened overnight. Loro Parque Fundación
(LPF) began supporting the conservation of this species in 1995, and only after
almost 24 years and US$561,400 of support from LPF have conservationists
been rewarded with the official recognition that the species is no longer
threatened.
LDF's
Brazilian counterparts can justly claim to have achieved success in averting
Red-tailed Amazon’s extinction. In Paraná State, LPF established its first
collaboration with Pedro Scherer-Neto of the Museum of Natural History in
Curitiba, and then between 1999 and 2006 with the Institute for Ecological
Research (IPÊ) working especially on the island of Superagüi. The LPF also did
some work in São Paulo State with the Institute of Conservation Biology of the
state university, but from 2005 until now the main partner in Paraná and São
Paulo has been the Society for Wildlife Research and Environmental Education
(SPVS).
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