Kakariki get island home

Military Macaw by Greg Homel, Natural Elements ProductionsCelebrations over the discovery in Colombia of a new species of bird were short lived when it was revealed that much of its habitat – also the habitat for a threatened macaw – is in danger of being flooded by a new hydro-electric dam project.
Yellow-shouldered Parrot is actually threatened by the pet trade, despite the seeming innocence of scenes like this in its native Venezuela. Photo: John John Bäckstrand (commons.wikimedia.org).The World Land Trust has successfully raised £10,000 in just six months to protect the endangered Yellow-shouldered Parrot on a Caribbean island.