Brazil – Paul Jepson

Alagoas curassow: generating identity value from a species asset

By Paul Jepson|2017-12-17T00:11:10+00:00December 17th, 2017|21st Century conservation, Blog, Extinction, Natural Assets, People & nature, Protected Areas, Technology empowered conservation|Comments Off on Alagoas curassow: generating identity value from a species asset

It is a thoughtful moment looking into the eye of a bird that nearly went extinct. As I crouched and observed an Alagoas curassow my first thought was a sense of deep gratitude to Pedro Mario Nardelli who in the late 1970s acted to rescue the last wild specimens and establish a captive population in

Back from the brink, but what next for Lear’s macaw?

By Paul Jepson|2017-09-03T16:56:23+00:00September 3rd, 2017|21st Century conservation, Blog, Conservation finance, Extinction, People & nature|Comments Off

In December 1978 the famous Brazilian ornithologist Helmut Sick made one of the ornithological discoveries of the 20th century. He located a breeding population of the fabulous Lear’s macaw – a species that had been known in collections for 150 years but whose whereabouts in the wild was a mystery. Lear’s macaw is one

Alagoas curassow: generating identity value from a species asset

Back from the brink, but what next for Lear’s macaw?

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