A volunteer-led conservation effort in Guatemala is helping border communities protect scarlet macaws crossing from Honduras.

Learn how cutting-edge DNA sequencing is helping scientists expose illegal parrot trafficking and protect endangered species in real time.

Indonesia’s Moluccan cockatoo faces threats from habitat loss and cultural practices but a pioneering feather-sharing initiative is helping protect both these iconic birds and the communities that cherish them.

Lafeber’s Global Spotlight highlights a powerful partnership in La Moskitia, where indigenous communities and One Earth Conservation race to protect vulnerable macaw nests during breeding season.

Lafeber Conservation Spotlight shines on the burrowing parrots of Patagonia and the people working to protect the world’s largest parrot colony.

This month’s Lafeber Globak Conservation spotlight supports the community-led conservation in Sierra Leone to protect mangrove habitats critical to the survival of the Endangered Timneh parrot.

Meet the dedicated team at Peru’s Taricaya EcoReserve working to rehabilitate confiscated parrots and return them to the wild.

On Indonesia’s Masakambing Island, the Abbotti cockatoo, a subspecies of the sulphur-crested (Cacatua sulphurea abbotti), is slowly rebounding through community-led conservation and protection efforts.

Lafeber’s Global Parrot Conservation spotlight takes us to Brazil, where a former garbage dumpsite has been reborn as a thriving sanctuary for green-winged macaws.

Lafeber’s conservation spotlight shines on Panama’s Azuero Peninsula, where the Panama Wildlife Conservation Charity(PWC) is leading the effort to restore the habitat of the critically endangered great green macaws.

Poaching and habitat loss threaten Seram’s Moluccan Eclectus and other parrot species, sparking urgent conservation efforts.

With support from Lafeber, ACPP is rescuing trafficked parrots, releasing macaws into the wild, and building national momentum for parrot conservation in Paraguay.

Discover how the World Parrot Trust is searching for Africa’s “lost lovebirds” and learn how this month’s Lafeber donation is helping protect these rare parrots in the wild.

Lafeber spotlights the upcoming Virtual International Psittacine Congress, an accessible, global online event open to all who care about parrot conservation, happening June 12–14, 2025.

Lafeber’s latest Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight highlights Brazil’s “To Fly Project,” helping rescued Amazon parrots regain survival skills and return to the wild.

Lafeber’s latest Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight takes us to Suriname, where One Earth Conservation (OEC) works with Indigenous community to protect parrots.

This month’s Lafeber Parrot Conservation Spotlight sheds a light on the World Parrot Trust’s Mobile Vet Unit, which delivers vital care, training, and support across Africa to combat trafficking and safeguard endangered African grey parrots.

Lafeber’s December Conservation Spotlight supports the Macaw Society and its foster chick program in Peru. Learn how researchers at Texas A&M’s Schubot Center for Avian Health discovered how scarlet macaw chick size and hatch date affected their level of parental care.

This month’s Lafeber Global Spotlight highlights the Indonesian Parrot Project’s inspiring mission to rescue endangered parrots and support local communities.

This month’s Lafeber Global Conservation Spotlight takes us to Ometepe Island, Nicaragua, where One Earth Conservation is working to protect endangered yellow-naped Amazon parrots through community-led conservation efforts.

Lafeber’s recent Global Conservation Spotlight highlights the Instituto Arara Azul’s efforts to restore habitats and protect breeding populations of Brazil’s hyacinth macaws, which have faced set backs due to recent fires.

This Month’s Lafeber Conservation Spotlight highlights the efforts to save the endangered Golden Conure through breeding and reintroduction programs that are revitalizing both the species and the Amazon ecosystem.

This month’s Lafeber Parrot Conservation Spotlight explores how climate change affects parrots in Tambopata, Peru. Learn how The Macaw Society’s research reveals impacts on breeding success and its efforts to help macaws and other vulnerable parrot species.

Lafeber’s latest Parrot Conservation Spotlight sheds a light on how One Earth Conservation (OEC) engages local communities in safeguarding endangered parrot species through its Parrot Conservation Corps. Find out how you can be a part of its biodiversity conservation efforts!

This Lafeber Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight highlights the work of Dr. George Olah of the Australian National University who is pioneering a new DNA database to combat the illegal parrot trade.

This month’s Lafeber Global Spotlight takes us to Costa Rica, where SINAC leads conservation efforts to save the critically endangered yellow-naped Amazon parrot.

Lafeber’s latest Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight takes us to Paradise Park, a wildlife sanctuary in Cornwall, UK, that has recently become a refuge for a group of endangered Lear’s macaws. Learn more about Paradise Park’s conservation efforts that offer hope for the endangered Lear’s macaw.

This month’s Lafeber Global Spotlight takes us to the village of Karasabai in Guyana, which is the only place wild sun conures (Aratinga solstitialis) can be studied in their natural habitat. Local rangers, with support through One Earth Conservation, are braving towering heights to study these raucous parakeets to document behaviors that can help shape conservation efforts for these eye-catching birds.

This month’s Lafeber Global Conservation Spotlight focuses on two organizations united to crack sustainable solutions for returning confiscated parrots back into the wild. Learn how the new Parrot Release Network aims to refine releasing protocols through rigorous global collaboration.

This month’s Lafeber’s Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight takes us to the Cook Islands, where Conservationist Luis Ortiz-Catedral recently conducted field research on the vulnerable Kurāmo’o lorikeet, also referred to as the blue lorikeet, on the tropical Cook Islands paradise of Aitutaki. This royal-blue parrot faces critical threats from invasive predators and devastating cyclones in the South Pacific. Now a coalition of conservation groups aims to study numbers and protect nests to aid in the blue lorikeet’s survival. Discover how research and community stewardship offer hope for vulnerable Pacific parrots like the blue lorikeet.

This month’s Lafeber Global spotlight takes us to Colombia, where we learn how three organizations have banded together to expand local involvement to build shared stewardship for the endangered Santa Marta Conure. As habitat loss poses increased risk of declining populations, expanding local care of their cherished endemic bird may be the conure’s last lifeline.

This month’s Lafeber Conservation Spotlight takes us to Colombia, where the Horizon Conservation Foundation has set its sights on increasing the numbers of Great Green Macaws in two of its native regions. A major initiative is to determine the macaws’ numbers in the wild and identify the threats they face. The foundation is also dedicated to educating and creating awareness in the local communities about the significance of macaw conservation through its tailor-made programs, with the goal of fostering a collaborative network. Learn more about Colombia’s Great Green Macaws and the Horizon Conservation Foundation’s work to save these critically-endangered parrots.

We depend on local communities, scientists, researchers, and international organizations to sound the alarm when a bird species is in trouble. Two organizations that are crucial to providing reliable information on endangered, threatened, and vulnerable species are the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Learn how IUCN and CITES play essential roles in documenting the
status of the species that provide our planet with biodiversity and help manage trade in a responsible way.

This month’s Lafeber Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight takes us to Australia, where the Difficult Bird Research Group (DBRG) is working to help conserve four at-risk parrot species: the orange-bellied parrot, the swift parrot, the superb parrot, and the palm cockatoo. See what makes each of these parrot species unique and what puts them most at risk, as well as learn more about DBRG’s work.

This month’s Lafeber Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight takes us to Brazil, home to the grey-breasted parakeet (Pyrrhura griseipectus). This beautiful species of conure is critically endangered, with its humid mountain forest range reduced to a mere 13% due to habitat destruction and poaching for the pet trade. To combat their dwindling numbers, AQUASIS, a non-profit organization formed in 1992 by a group of university students, founded the Grey-breasted Parakeet Project in 2007. Learn more about the grey-breasted parakeet and the conservation work AQUASIS is stewarding to give these birds a fighting chance.

This month’s Lafeber’s Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight takes us to Costa Rica, where the locals, who refer to themselves as “Titos” are deeply driven to protect their native lands and animals, including the majestic Great Green Macaw. Learn how María Elena Munguía Jiménez, a volunteer with the Macaw Recovery Network (MRN) sparked the idea of growing almond trees, which are crucial to the macaw’s survival, and how women rangers now oversee a network of nurseries with the goal of raising 7,000 trees by mid-2024.

Yellow-headed Amazon parrots are fairly common as pet companions, but their wild counterparts are quickly declining in their native habitats. This month’s Lafeber’s Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight takes us to Belize, where the Belize Bird Rescue (BBR), in close collaboration with TIDE (Toledo Institute for Development and Environment), has been leading conservation efforts to save and rehabilitate vulnerable yellow-headed Amazon chicks as well as rehabilitate former captive parrots for release back into the wild.

In December 2022, South Africa named the Cape parrot as its Parrot of the Year. This unusual and highly endangered species (Poicephalus robustus) inhabits isolated patches of forest in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Naal and Limopo areas of South Africa, the only country where it can be found. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates […]

This month’s Lafeber Conservation spotlight takes us to Nigeria, where conservationist Ifeanyi Ezenwa has turned his love for nature into becoming a conservationist to help African grey parrots in their native area.

This month’s Lafeber Conservation spotlight takes us to Guatemala, where One Earth Conservation, an organization co-founded by LoraKim Joyner, DVM, and Gail Koelln, carries on the fight to save yellow-naped Amazons in their native region.

This month’s Lafeber Conservation spotlight takes us to Sierra Leone, Africa, where the World Parrot Trust (WPT) is hard at work developing conservation strategies to help save endangered Timneh African grey parrots. This includes protecting their habit and protecting them from poaching, as well as bringing local leaders, community members, conservationists, and government officials together to discuss the actions needed to conserve and protect Timneh parrots.

This month’s Lafeber Conservation spotlight takes us to Perú, where the Macaw Society has been researching and advancing the conservation of the scarlet macaw (Ara macao macao) inside the Tambopata National Reserve, southeast Perú, for over 20 years.

This month’s Lafeber Conservation spotlight takes us to Costa Rica, where the Macaw Recovery Network (MRN)is leading the charge to help increase the population numbers of the great green macaw. For a critically endangered species like the great greens, every egg matters. See the great lengths MRN goes through to give every egg a chance of hatching and fledging.

This month’s Lafeber Conservation spotlight takes us to New Zealand, where the NZ Parrot Trust is leading the charge to help increase the population numbers of the curious and sometimes mischievous Kea parrot — the only mountain parrot species in the world! Learn why these parrots’ ferocious chewing tendencies can pose a hazard to themselves, and what is being done to protect them.

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to the metropolitan city of Campo Grande, Brazil, where the Instituto Arara Azul is helping wild blue & golds and other macaws thrive in the city. As human encroachment consumes many parrot species’ native lands, helping them thrive in the city environments that encircle them is an innovative idea, and perhaps a critical one for the survival of some parrot species.

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to a small island in the Caribbean — Bonaire, home to the yellow-shouldered Amazon parrot. The conservation group Echo is dedicated to ensuring a stable and growing population of this endangered parrot by reducing habitat degradation, restoring the parrots’ habitat, and reducing the poaching of chicks.

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to Costa Rica, where the Macaw Recovery Network (MRN) and its teams of volunteers are monitoring and protecting the critically endangered great green macaw across Costa Rica, scarlet macaws in Guanacaste province, and the endangered yellow-naped Amazon across its range in Costa Rica.

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to Guatemala, where the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has strived to help macaws by building nesting sites, monitoring fledging rates to determine macaw population, and growing support from the surrounding community through education and outreach programs.

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to Bolivia, where CIESA-the Endangered Species Research Center is working toward establishing a breeding program to reintroduce blue-throated macaws back to the protected area of Gran Mojos–Loreto.

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to Africa, where conservationists are surveying the population distribution of lovebirds, as well as helping their numbers grow with the help of nest boxes.

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to Australia’s Kangaroo Island, where glossy black cockatoos are still struggling to recover from the devastating 2019-2020 bushfires that raged through their natural habitat.

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to Brazil, where the Instituto Arara Azul is fighting to save the majestic hyacinth macaw in its native Pantanal region.

This month’s parrot conservation spotlight highlights ongoing work to protect the Congo African grey in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Lafeber’s latest Conservation Spotlight takes us to Indonesia, where The Indonesian Parrot Project (IPP) has spent the past 20 years supporting conservation efforts for many parrot species, including Moluccan cockatoos, Eclectus, various other cockatoos, great-billed parrots, and lorikeets.

Wild parrot conservation groups are working hard to protect a wide diversity of parrot species. Lafeber is committed to helping as well with our Global Parrot conservation grant. This month’s spotlight takes us to Bolivia, South America, where the Conservación del Loro Boliviano Foundation is fighting to save macaws and other parrot species.