Not so robust

An admirable story of how to help the endemic parrots of South Africa not to disappear and not be left only in illustrations, photographs or videos.
In Spanish it is called Loro robusto, in English Cape Parrot and in Latin, Poicephalus robustus.
The indiscriminate felling of its main tree source of sustenance is one of the reasons that affected their survival. Today there are already many regulations to avoid it, but for years it was an indiscriminate felling due to the interest in the quality of the wood.
By not eating the fruit of this tree that feeds them, these parrots can suffer from the terrible viral disease called psittacosis. The fruit of this podocarpus, national tree of South Africa has a natural antibiotic that heals and away from this terrible disease. And a third factor that decreased their populations was the illegal trafficking of the species.
These three problems were solved with the interest of an ornithologist, a kind of Marvel of nature, Steve Boyer.

Let's see how

When the trees disappeared, the parrots would not have how to reproduce. Then our good nature manager installed approximately 300 artificial nests that he himself supervised and monitored.
When the trees disappeared, the parrots were not going to eat. And it is that 95% of its food source comes from this tree.

How did you reproduce the trees?

Steve Boyer, sought alliances, allies, so that a rural population, will be responsible for reproducing and grow bushes to be used later in reforestation in the area of interest, paying one euro per bush grown to implement in the area and serving the dessert as a vegetal cover of food for this endemic species. Approximately 10,000 shrubs have already been planted.

Here I left my illustration in graphite and watercolor of my robust Parrot, there in South Africa, it's good that it is not going to go extinct and there are those who want to help them live. If this story interests you, receive your loving donation through this page page http://www.wildbirdtrust.com/cape-parrot-project/