Loro Parque Foundation announces that in 2022 it will dedicate 1.3 million euros to different biodiversity conservation projects around the world. At the annual meeting of the Advisory Committee of Loro Parque Fundación, recently held in Puerto de la Cruz, it was agreed to dedicate this amount to finance 61 projects on five continents and also in the sea that surrounds the Canary Islands.
The foundation leads the conservation of parrot species worldwide, “since it has greater achievements thanks to the combination of knowledge obtained under human care and in nature. The Foundation’s breeding center is currently the largest genetic reserve for parrots in the world and it contributes invaluable data to the different collaborating scientific projects and entities ».
Terrestrial species and ecosystems are the ones that will receive most of the help from the Loro Parque Fundación, such as the protection of the Philippine cockatoo (critically endangered in the IUCN red list), whose project will allow “to continue securing the populations on the island of Rasa and try to ensure that the reproductive success achieved in that area is extended to other parts of the region.” Loro Parque Fundación emphasizes that this species has received up to now 1.7 million euros of its funds to “be able to keep it safe from extinction”.
Other outstanding projects of this entity that are directed to the protection of terrestrial species and ecosystems are that of the bluebeard macaw, in Bolivia; the yellow-eared parrot, in Colombia and Ecuador; the black-cheeked inseparable in Africa; black cockatoos, in Australia, or the hyacinth macaw, in Brazil. Thanks to funding from the Foundation, the protection of “one of the best-preserved lion populations in all of Africa is maintained in Hwange National Park, in Zimbabwe“.
The institution also dedicates part of its efforts to marine species and ecosystems, among which the different projects under the name of CanBIO, which started in 2019. In 2022 the first four years of the program will close with a total contribution of one million euros from Parrot park and the same amount by the Government of the Canary Islands, which has served to complete the climate change monitoring network and carry out campaigns with autonomous vehicles that monitor underwater noise and the presence of cetaceans. throughout Macaronesia. CanBIO’s actions also include the conservation of critically endangered species such as the angel or the mantelina.
The rest of the financing destined to marine projects will be dedicated to the conservation of several species of cetaceans, among which stands out the humpback dolphin of the Atlantic, in critical danger of extinction, in the delta of Saloum (Senegal); the well-being of cetaceans in the Canary Islands, or the orca population in the Strait of Gibraltar, with which the Foundation has collaborated for more than 15 years.
As a novelty, next year Loro Parque Foundation It will also finance an international conservation award for the most outstanding people in the protection of the planet’s nature, as well as the production of a documentary film on the need to conserve the Earth’s biodiversity through American humane.
