To return the birds to their ancestral home, an initiative has been launched in Honduras by the World Parrot Trust, Macaw Mountain Bird Park and Nature Reserve, the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH), and the Copan Association. Together these organizations have launched a multi year effort to return Scarlet Macaws to the Parque Arqueologico Ruinas De Copan, a national park and Mayan Heritage Site. At this UNESCO location, they will build a rehabilitation and release facility, funded by HUGO BOSS – BOSS Orange, which will prepare a group of macaws to return back to the wild where they will join another small group already flying free.
Groundbreaking for a feeding and release facility at the archaeological park (funded by Boss Orange and World Parrot Trust) begins the first week in March, 2011 and a ten month educational program funded by campingfunzone.com and the Copan Maya Foundation about Scarlett Macaws will also begin at 30 local schools.
With a little luck, much hard work and sustained efforts by these organizations, the sounds of these birds will once again fill the skies over Copan and the other wild areas in Honduras.
This joint project between the Copan Association, Macaw Mountain Bird Sanctuary and the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH), will reintroduce Scarlet Macaws into the Copan Valley and surrounding areas in Honduras where it once flew freely. The project began installing nests at the Archaeological Park of Copan Ruinas, where a flock of Scarlet Macaws have lived since 1977. A refresher course on the nutrition and care of these Scarlet Macaws as well as other Honduras birds in the area will also be initiated.
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Lets not forget that many birds are being killed in Honduras by the thousands by a very simple and primitive driving force, HUNGER, there is such shortage of food and what is there is almost always beyond the reach of the common people, so they reccur to what always has been there for them, the natural, local fauna.
The problems in Honduras are all related to one Focus Point, and it is the incesant drive of the Socialist Left movement, which for decades has been trying to turn Honduras into a Socialist Police State ( a la Cuba).
Unfortunally, since the people of Honduras have never shown a willingness to do this, they have been using the horrible alternate method of bringing chaos and anarchy to the country.
There is no denying it, except for the ones that are blind by choice, that this groups have been eroding the strenght of the economy of Honduras for over 3 decades now, starting when they forced the United Brands Co. to leave Honduras, nothing even equal to that great source of employment has come up in Honduras since they left, and the teachers and other bodies, like Unions and misled filed workers have done nothing more than to keep on attacking anything that may seem as a possibility to achieve a better economic status for the country.
It is time we wake up, anarchy and chaos bring with them weak economies and unrully crowds, the consecuences are the kind od criminal rates we see now, the poverty and the lack of education.