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Cyanopsitta Magazine December 1999 No. 55 CyanopsittaCyanopsittaFUNDACIÓN 5 1994-1999 Cyanopsitta No. 56 - March 2000 Loro Parque Fundación: 1994-1999 The founders of the Advisory Board of Loro Parque Fundación in 1994: Wolfgang Kiessling, John Parque Fundación in 1994: Wolfgang Board of Loro The founders of the Advisory and David Waugh. Susan Clubb, Inge Feier, Stoodley, The first five years The conservation of parrots in their natural environment and in captivity. This is what Loro Parque Fundación is striving for like few other organisations in the world. Using parrots as ambassadors the foundation strives to protect the habitats in which they live and secure the survival of a area of the endangered ecosystems of our planet. Loro Parque Foundacion has financed and collaborated in 22 parrot field conservation programmes, and is constantly increasing both its annual spending budget and the number of projects that it finances. Up to the present date, the foundations expenditures in parrot conservation total US$ 1.3 million. This parrot collection, which is the largest in the world, is an invaluable safety-net and genetic resource for species and subspecies endangered in the wild state, today comprises of around 2800 individuals of 312 taxa. Loro Parque Foundation participates in 20 of the 21 European Studbooks and Endangered Species Programmes concerning parrots, of which it coordinates five. Other major tasks undertaken by the foundation are the captive research programmes aimed at improving the welfare and management of parrots in captivity and the education programmes that convey to the over one and a half million annual visitors to Loro Parque the need to protect the worlds natural heritage. It all began when Mr. Wolfgang Kiessling for future developments. The long-term financing of formed an organisation aimed at protecting parrots in the Spix’s Macaw Recovery Programme in Brazil began the wild. Loro Parque had already started in 1987 to with the creation of the Permanent Committee in 1990. finance it´s first parrot conservation project - aimed at In 1992, coinciding with the expansion of Loro saving the two endemic amazons on the Caribbean Parque, Loro Parque Fundacion was created and island of Dominica - and the association laid the grounds 3 Cyanopsitta No. 56 - March 2000 The Advisory Board of Loro Parque Fundación Tomás de Azcárate y Bang Nigel J Collar Susan L. Clubb Wolfgang Grummt Povl Jorgensen Ministry of the Environment Research Fellow Avian Veterinarian Animal Park Friedrichsfelde Aviculturist of the Canary Islands BirdLife International Florida, USA Berlin, Germany Haslev, Denmark Tenerife, Spain Cambridge, England Ian R. Swingland Roland Wirth David Waugh Joachim Steinbacher President and Founder President and Founder Director Editor of Gefiederte Welt Durrell Institute of Zoological Socierty for the Protection Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Bad Homburg, Germany Conservation and Ecology of Species and Populations Edinburgh, Scotland Kent, England Munich, Germany formally registered at regional level in the Canary In 1995, Dr. David Waugh joined Loro Parque Islands under the name of Fundación Loro Parque. Fundación as its first Scientific Director. Together with Within the frame of this organisation, several initiatives Mr. Wolfgang Kiessling, President of the Foundation, aimed at the protection of the environment have since and Mrs.Inge Feier, its Director, the ground lines for been supported, such as the awarding of prizes for the future were laid down: guidelines and priorities were outstanding environmental documentaries and established for the selection and funding of parrot field publications. conservation programmes and the conduct of captive research programmes. The foundation also moved into Loro Parque Fundación: 1994-1999 its headquarters inside Loro Parque. The newsletter, In 1994, Loro Parque Fundación was legally first published in 1986, was given a new name registered as a non-profit, non-governmental “Cyanopsitta” and has evolved from being a simple organisation with the Ministry for Education and news sheet into a highly colourful informative magazine. Science of the Government of Spain. With its Furthermore, 1995 saw two major events in recognition at the national level and thus the autorisation the Spix’s macaw project: the release of the female in to engage in activities world-wide, Loro Parque Brazil and the transfer of two birds from the São Paulo Fundación became the leading force in the management Zoo to Tenerife. The number of supported in-situ parrot of the parrot conservation projects that had previously conservation projects increased to six. been funded by Loro Parque. The Spix’s macaw - one of the most emblematic parrot species - was chosen as 1996 was marked by several important events. the emblem of the new foundation. Foremost, a generous donation by Her Majesty Queen Loro Parque S.A. transferred the ownership of Sirikit of Thailand and her acceptance to become the largest collection of parrots in the world and the Honorary Member of Loro Parque Fundación. breeding centres, to the newly created foundation. While Secondly, the founding of the Advisiory Board of the the management of the collection has since been paid foundation, with Mr.John Stoodley and Dr.Susan Clubb by Loro Parque, the revenue stemming from the sales as the first external members, and the increase of the of surplus offspring benefits the activities of Loro number of parrot field conservation projects to nine. Parque Fundación. Furthermore, an agreement was signed with the Loro Parque gave permission for the University of La Laguna in Tenerife, to facilitate the installation of 2 collection boxes; the lucky bell and the exchange of expertise and allow student internships at bronze carp. Further income was gained by the annual the foundation. contributions by it´s members. Moreover, Loro Parque granted the foundation free space for an Ecoshop, which In 1997, several acclaimed experts accepted brought in more income. the invitation to become additional members of the Board of Advisors, including Dr.Tomás de Azcárate y Sponsors of Loro Parque Fundación 4 Cyanopsitta No. 56 - March 2000 Bang, Mr. Povl Jorgensen, Dr. Joachim Steinbacher, Mr. Ian Swingland and Mr.Roland Wirth, and a meeting was held in May of that year to discuss the future development of the foundation. Also in this year, captive-bred Illiger’s Macaws were sent from Tenerife to Brazil for a pilot re- introduction experiment designed to help future releases of captive-bred Spix’s macaws. Finally, the first phase of the new breeding centre of the foundation at La Vera was inaugurated. In 1998 the postion of educator was created in order to increase the colaboration between local schools on the islands. An agreement was signed with the “Escuela Navega”- the Department of Education of the Canary Island Government, in order to offer the experiment had been. complete animal collection of Loro Parque as an educational resource to the local school community. 1999 is the V anniversary of Loro Parque In July, Mr. Yves de Soye succeeded Dr.David Fundación. It has brought many exciting happenings Waugh in the position of Scientific Director, and and success stories, but also the departure of Mr. John continued to work along the priorities previously Stoodley - a loss that will take a while to overcome. established. The website of Loro Parque Fundación was Mr. Nigel Collar, Dr.Wolfgang Grummt and installed, and new didactic signs for all the parrot cages Dr. David Waugh accepted our invitation to become were produced. The second phase of the parrot breeding new members of the Advisory Board of the foundation. centre in La Vera was inaugurated. The foundation The number of parrot field conservation st convened the 1 Parrot Management Workshop and for projects has risen to twelve and, for the first time, the the first time hosted the IV. International World Parrot anual spending exceeded US$ 200,000 (see graphic Convention. above). The same year saw the release of the captive- An agreement was signed with the University bred Illiger‘s macaws sent from Tenerife to Brazil, and of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, reinforcing the link the following months showed how successful the with the academic community in the Canary Islands. The Department of Education was successfully taken over by Dr.Javier Almunia. A special teachers’ pack “Animals of the world “was completed for elementary schools that plan to visit Loro Parque, and an extensive educational exhibit was accomplished for the newly opened penguin exhibit in Loro Parque. The Spix’s Macaw Recovery Committee met in Houston and several important and promising decisions were taken that give us high hopes that a population of Spix’s macaws will soon be re-established in the wild. Over the past years the foundation has contributed significantly to parrot mangement and care. 5 Cyanopsitta No. 56 - March 2000 Projects supported since 1994. (On-going projects are marked with an asterisk) 1 Conservation of the endemic Red-necked and Imperial amazons on Dominica, Amazona arausiaca and A. imperialis (Peter Evans/Oxford University & Dominica Forestry and Wildlife Division; 141,760 US$) 2* Spix’s Macaw Cyanopsitta spixii Recovery Programme in Brazil (536,018 US$) 3 Parrot Conservation on the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia (International Loriinae Society; 5,250 US$) 4 Identification of priority areas for parrot and biodiversity conservation on Halmahera, Indonesia (BirdLife International & Indonesian Directorate General of Forest Conservation
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