Saving the Cape parrot

Cape Parrots are under threat from poachers, loss of habitat, and parrot beak and feather disease. Photo: Steve BurtonA COMMUNITY project in a mountain village is helping to create jobs at the same time as protecting a rare forest bird. The R1.6-million Cata Eco-Tourism Development Project was established through an agreement between the EU and the office of the premier in the Eastern Cape, to help the people of Cata, a village near Keiskammehoek, at the foot of the Amatola Mountains.

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Cape Parrots falling out the skies in King William's Town

Over the last two weeks five dying Cape Parrots have been handed in to the SPCA King William's Town or directly to staff of the Cape Parrot Project.

SPCA workers say that they suspect that double the number of Cape Parrots are not being reported.

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35 Cape parrots counted in Limpopo

The Cape Parrot, Poicephalus robustus robustus, is endemic to South Africa. It only occurs in the afromontane yellowwood forests found in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern cape and Limpopo. These trees are utilised by the cape parrot for food and nesting sites, but due to habitat destruction, these forests are becoming more and more fragmented, leaving the parrot with less and less place to live.

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