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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lorobolivia" data-source="post: 1978735" data-attributes="member: 91437">We rather want to raise questions than give answers.Who counts the birds? Who raised the figure of 50 birds left in the wild???If it is true that there are only 50 left in the wild, why would they want to take 20 from the wild into captive breeding programs, if there are more than enough breeders, owners of those birds that could be asked FIRST to contribute birds to captive breeding programs???? Why reduce the number of wild birds of this species even further, considering that there are thousands and perhaps even more living in captivity??We also question climate change being the cause of a decline in a bird species. Birds roam on earth since the time of the dinosaurs. They were capable to adapt to about everything: Earlier climate changes, abrupt climate changes in the present, exotic parrot species surviving in countries that show much lower temperatures than their home countries, parrots being fed milk and bread for years surviving such an inappropriate diet...How could they not survive in the wild?Shouldn´t we rather address the breeders/owners of those birds and ask them to give back to nature, to give back to all of us what they took?If a species is not left in the wild and if we want to see it, than there is no other choice than going to a park/zoo/breeder and pay for the right to see it or pay the price for a bird to own it.  We, lorobolivia, believe that keeping birds in captivity keeps them from living in the wild and is the reason of the decline of bird species, including parrots, worldwide.</blockquote>

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