Nadine Lamberski
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Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back
I've spent many nights sleeping in that forest and it's cold. So they need a really big tree in order to have that dense wood to protect the chicks. Obviously the chicks don't have any feathers when they first hatch and they're very, very susceptible to cold.
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Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back
Over time, almost 90% of those old growth forests, those trees are removed by illegal logging activities.
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Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back
When we talk about protecting the forest, we also want to protect the local communities that live in that forest and benefit from that forest. And benefiting from that forest means protecting
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Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back
And so those are the areas we're aiming for, for protecting and for not logging. And we communicate that information to... government agencies that can then work on getting those formal protections for those regions.
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Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back
You can essentially double the number of nests in an area by providing those cavities that have the right amount of insulation so that chicks can survive.
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Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back
You pull the nest box up there and then suspend it in the harness. Then they have to attach it to the tree. So it's quite a job.
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Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back
And the times of the year that I've been there have been in the late summer, early fall. So sometimes you'll see a little orange and red, but it's mostly a sea of green. And some of some of these mountains are very steep. And you'll see a lot of rocky outcroppings.