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Protection of the Chilean Conure or Burrowing Parrot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Robert J.A. Goodland
Robert J.A. Goodland
Affiliation:
Office of Environmental and Scientific Affairs, The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , Summer 1987 , pp. 180
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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* Cyanoliseus patagonus byroni, also called the Burrowing Parrot or Greater Patagonian Conure, and Tricahue or Loro Barranquero Chileno in Spanish. The programme includes: (1) Protection of all currently-used breeding sites during the breeding season, including fencing and one manned camp each for 90 days; (2) Capture of parrots from the two sites to be inundated and their re-installation in recently abandoned breeding sites, including 5 years' feeding with collected wild fruits; (3) Support for the captive breeding and the re-introduction programmes, and (4) Support for education and surveillance programmes.