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09-01-2007

In the latest Australian Birdkeeper magazine there are several good articles about macaws, including an article that mentions the Arab breeding centre. I was unaware of this development. I read the book that you mention and so my latest update on it was that the program had been given up. I was unaware that the philopino guy no longer had his birds.
This is indeed good news.

09-01-2007

grant, so as to stay on topic - i'll post a reply to this in the yangtze thread i created....

Spix
09-01-2007

Jay- the Filipino breeder transferred all his birds to the Arabian Centre but it was not widely publicised- I don't know the reason but I only discovered it by chance. Nothing much about Spix ever seems straigtforward... Actually, he, Dios, the Filipino breeder had already successfully produced a number of chicks from his birds and there was a plan to send five back to Brazil to be part of a release scheme. So he was cooperating for the birds' recovery. I guess this plan was cancelled after the last Wild bird died.
A lot of transfers seem to have happened since the book- but they still keep pretty quiet about some of them. The Al Wabra station has superb facilities and I think they could save the species- in co-0peration with the Brazilians obviously.

15-01-2007

talking of private breeding centres, ive tried to google two such places in our region, without success.
in new zealand, keystone wildlife preserve, and in australia a pastoral company afiliated with arazpa. was wondering what level of involvement they had, if any, with exotic taxa.

15-01-2007

Probably Dunkeld Pastoral Company, in Dunkeld, Victoria. They have plans of becoming involved in some of the native species breed for release programs. As far as I know, they don't have any exotic species, other than maybe some domestics.

I've not heard of keystone wildlife preserve.

15-01-2007

priam psittaculture centre (aka silver dawn parrot farm) is a memeber of ARAZPA and i would guess has possibly the largest collection of exotic parrots in australia. oddly, the parent company PRIAM also specialises in meats, native foods and the like....

15-01-2007

Keystone is the place that two young male giraffes born at Orana were recently sent to. This suprised me as they don't appear to be members of ARAZPA.
I couldn't find anything about them either.

15-01-2007

yep, thats right. its all i know about that place, other than that its on the north island.

Keystone Wildlife reserve
16-01-2007

I have never heard of this place either
I have read that it is North of Auckland , so it gives me some geographical region to start hunting .....
I will try to hunt down more information about this place , and will inform you in due course if/when I have found anything

16-02-2007

Whilst I'm not normally a huge fan or black and white bears, or the hype they create in zoos, I visited Atlanta Zoo yesterday, where they have a very yound panda on display. I have to say, seeing it curled up, asleep in the sun, with it's mother keeping a watchful eye on it from close by, does stir emotions in the vistors.

(Yeah, ok..... I did think it was a bit cute!)

17-02-2007

wht u r in atlanta, that is so kool

im guessing
18-02-2007

zoo pro, am i right in guessing your at a conference on the global amphibian crisis? zoos, universities, botanical gardens and museums have been called to arms to try and save frogs, world wide.the conference is based in atlanta, georgia and australia has sent a delegation.

18-02-2007

amphibian man hay, closing in on who the mysterious zoopro is

22-09-2008

Ruahin the female giant panda has given birth to 1.1 twins on Saturday, she herself was born in Japan.
Panda in Wakayama zoo gives birth to twins Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion