Ognorhynchus icterotis, Yellow-eared Parrot

Category Terrestre
Date  1999-2024
Investment 2.311.425$

Thanks to LPF’s conservation efforts, the Yellow-eared Parrot has been saved from extinction. Although their populations are currently fragmented, their numbers are increasing, which gives even more hope to this parakeet.

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Yellow-eared Parrot

Loro Parque Fundación has played a key role in the recovery of the yellow-eared parrot, one of the most threatened bird species in the Colombian Andes. Its efforts have focused on habitat protection, scientific research, environmental education, and collaboration with local communities.

Thanks to decades of monitoring, including studies on the parrot’s diet, breeding behaviour and habitat use, and the conservation of its critical habitat—particularly the wax palms (Colombia’s national tree, on which the species heavily depends for nesting and feeding)—the wild population has seen a steady increase.

This progress led the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to downlist the species in 2010 from Critically Endangered to Endangered. The project also promoted educational campaigns and institutional agreements to reduce long-standing threats to the habitat, making it one of the most successful conservation stories in South America—thanks to the ongoing support of Loro Parque Fundación.