Comments on: Parrots in Danger

By: VINCE

VINCE — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:33:09 +0000

I AGREE FLAT OUT WITH JOHN.THE PARROTS AND THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING FOR THE SAME THING “EARTH”. ITS VERY SAD IT SEEMS LIKE NOT MUCH ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THE STURGGLES OF THE INDIGEOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS SAME WITH THE PARROTS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE PARROTS WE NEED TO MAKE IT ONE OF OUR TOP PRIORITIES AND WORK TO MAKE IT A TOP PRIORITY IN THE COUNTRIES WHERE THESE PARROTS STILL HAVE A WILD POPULATION. MOST OF THE ILLEGAL TRADE IS FOR DEMAND COMING FROM UNITED STATES AND OTHER RICH COUNTRIES. IF WE EDUCATE THE PUBLIC EVERY WHERE AND WORK WITH CONSERVATION GROUPS THROUGHOUT MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. MAYBE WE CAN BEGIN TO TURN THINGS ABOUT AND SAVE THE REMAINING WILD PARROT POPULATIONS. IT’S A TALL ORDER,AND IT’S GOING TO TAKE THE EFFORTS OF EVERYONE. IN THE NORTH WEST COAST OF MEXICO THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL AMAZONS AND QUITE GOOD TALKERS. ABOUT 6YEARS BACK I WENT TO A BIRD SHOW IN TUCSON AND I PURCHASED ONE OF THESE LOVELY BIRDS (CALLED A WHITED FRONTED AMAZON) THE PRICE $200 DOLLARS. THE SELLER HAD FOUR OF THEM. A FEW MONTHS LATER I SOLD THE PARROT TO A FRIEND THAT HAD ANOTHER PARROT AND WANTED TO GET A COMPANION FOR IT. BUT I STILL CANT STOP THINKING OF WHAT EVER BECAME OF THAT PARROT AND IS IT BEING TREATED WELL AND IS IT HAPPY. I WOULD NEVER PURCHASE ANOTHER PARROT AND I HOPE OTHER PEOPLE COME TO THE SAME REALIZATION AND STOP AND THINK BEFORE THEY MAKE SUCH A PURCHASE. IF THERE WAS NO DEMAND THE PARROTS WOULD NO LONGER BE TRAPPED AND CAPTURED FOR THE PET TRADE.

By: john

john — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:39:48 +0000

Perhaps a poor dumb, wire bender, such as me should be ashamed of himself for thinking the indigenous peoples of the Amazon might be more important, than the parrots. Then the lives of both are intertwined with each becoming extinct at an alarming rate. Such a small part of the great green rainforest remains such a small number of a once proud and self-sufficient people. If we can save one, we could save both, if we can admit that humans need their natural habitat as well as parrots.
Then there is the need for natural resources so I may sit and type on my laptop in relative comfort. Could I live without such things? sadly the answer is no. Generations before me saw abundance and used it up; indeed in my short time I have seen so much of the natural world disappear.
People scream save the rainforest, and cut the local forest down, and sprawl ever outward, consuming all of nature that lay in their way. As a child the area I live in was covered with forest and farm land, now all is concrete and asphalt, urban sprawl. When I multiply this across the nation I wonder will cause the great nation that once could produce more food than the world needed to perhaps someday go hungry.
I am a member of the hippy generation, we loved the earth, and then we grew up and paved it over for a new superstore. I stand ashamed of the decisions we made, but we were not the first generation to fail our ideals. We may however be the last. So please save the parrot but please save the indigenous people as well. I can’t help but wonder if the last of the natives may well cease to exist in accordance with the Mayan calendar. 2012 is not all that far away, could we stop it, should we stop it?

By: sarah kennedy

sarah kennedy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:15:48 +0000

I work in a pet store, and all of the birds we house for retail sale are bred in captivity. They are amazing creatures; even in captivity, their natural instincts can be seen. It is a shame that these creatures have been taken from their natural habitats – and that their habitats have been taken from them.