Together with local communities, PROFAUNA campaigns on parrot protection in Manokwari, West Papua

ProFauna Campaigns on Parrot Protection in Manokwari, West PapuanThousands of parrots  are caught from the wild in Papu and North Malukuto supply  domestic and international illegal wildlife trade. In the 2001-2002 Flying without Wings report, the Indonesian wildlife protection NGO, ProFauna Indonesia (www.profauna.org), revealed evidence that an average of  15,000 parrots were caught from the wild to supply the pet markets. Among the parrots poached from the wild in West Papua are black-capped Lories (Lorius lorry), sulphur-crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita), Eclectus parrots (Eclectus roratus), and rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglosus haematodus).

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L.A. author a strong voice for parrot planning

Mira Tweti has sacrificed much of her two-bedroom apartment on Los Angeles' west side to ZaZu, fashioning a mini-rain-forest-cum-bird-playground on her spacious balcony and draping the living-room sofa in towels, since ZaZu poops as frequently as he flies. Photo: ANNE CUSACK

LOS ANGELES — ZaZu hangs upside down on the curtains of the apartment window, surveying all that is his: the jumble of colorful plastic balls, the climbing ladders, the panoramic view of the ocean. And the woman standing before him, cooing.

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New Caledonia's most wanted

The sole remaining specimen of New Caledonian Lorikeet: a female preserved in the Paris Museum of Natural History. Photo: Nigel Collar/BirdLifeA number of the world's birds have seemingly vanished from existence, with no reliable sightings for a number of years. This article focuses on two such enigmatic inhabitants of New Caledonia in the Pacific, one of which will be the subject of renewed search efforts following funding from the 2006 British Birdwatching Fair (Saving the Endangered Parrots of the Pacific).

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