Friday
Nov282014
Collapse of native parrot and parakeet population in the Dominican Republic
Friday, November 28, 2014 at 13:40 
Parrot breeding grounds are hard to reach. Counts conducted by Fondo Pro Naturaleza (PRONATURA) at the the The Humeadora Mountain National Park (PNMH) show that the populations of both the Hispaniolan parrot (Amazona ventralis) and the Hispaniolan parakeet (Psittacara chloroptera) are in sharp decline. Biodiversity specialist, Juan Llamacho reports that during the monitoring of the populations in this years nesting season only 40 pairs of the parrot could be observed compared to 300 pairs 2 decades ago.