Conservation program for the endemic Bonairean Parrot

Summary: 

Effective and comprehensive conservation program for the endemic Bonairean Parrot, including awareness building and outreach, reforestation with food trees, monitoring of nesting, and rehabilitation of injured or confiscated parrots.

Additional remarks: 

Category of best practice: 

Biodiversity management (e.g. conservation ex situ and in situ, sustainable use and exploitation, rehabilitation, management of invasive species, pollutants, pesticides)
Governance and policies (e.g. interactions science/societies, regulations, decision-makers, networks, international collaborations)

Criteria used to define the best practice: 

Significant contribution to preservation of biodiversity and ecological effectiveness
Provision of further environmental and socio-economic benefits
Sustainability of projects (i.e. projects remain beyond the given funding)
Good governance (involve relevant stakeholders and integrate different interests and perspectives and needs in part from local stakeholders)

Organisation: 

Echo Foundation

Contact details: 

Sam Williams (sam@echobonaire.org) - director

Geographic region: 

Caribbean

Location: 

Bonaire