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Birds currently receive the greatest attention in regards to conservation. Arguably the most successful fauna recovery plan in Puerto Rico was the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Plan. Initiated in 1968, its main objective was to downlist the Puerto Rican parrot's status from critical to threatened by 2020.
The species is the only remaining native parrot to Puerto Rico and has been listed as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union since 1994. Once widespread and abundant, the population declined drastically in the 19th and early 20th centuries with the removal of most of its native habitat; the species has completely vanished from ...
Macaw conservation in Belize and Honduras in Central America; natural history of the el oro parakeet (Pyrrhura oresi) Determination of the status of the glaucous macaw and hyacinth macaw in Argentina and Paraguay; The genetics of the Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) Support for the Centro para la Conservation de los Psitacidos Mexicanos
Around 120 species breed in Puerto Rico while the majority of the others overwinter in the archipelago. An additional accidental species has been added from another source. This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds , 7th edition through the 63rd Supplement, published by the American ...
5 Conservation status. 6 ... [21] [22] The species also occurs as an introduced species in Puerto Rico. ... The scarlet macaw is an early example of a parrot breeding ...
That same year, Wadsworth was directly involved with the conservation efforts of the Puerto Rican parrot and was successful in putting aside 3,200 acres for parrot habitat. [7] [15] The Puerto Rican parrot, which had once numbered in the millions, had dwindled to around 2,000 birds by 1949, and then to only 13 by 1975. [7] By the start of the ...
In 2001, the Puerto Rico Ornithology Society started promoting the conservation of the Las Cucharas area and proposed it as an Important Area for the Conservation of Birds. Then, during 2003–2004, the United States Geological Survey , with the support of the Ponce Municipal Government , conducted a hydrology study of Laguna Las Salinas. [ 13 ]
The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico) is a private, nonprofit organization protecting natural areas; constituting conservation easements; restoring, rehabilitating and preserving historical structures; developing educational programs that foster the protection of natural areas; and directing a tree nursery program for native and endemic ...