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<\/a>So little is known about Guyana that when I mention we are doing conservation work there we are generally met with, “wow, I have always wanted to go to Africa” or “Don’t drink the coolaid”. Within this small country (80,000 square miles or the size of all of New England) lies one of the largest, if not THE largest unbroken primary rain forest on earth. As the founder of a non profit parrot rescue group, Foster Parrots Ltd., my interest in Guyana started out to be one preservation and conservation of wild parrots. Guyana is one of only a few countries on this planet who allow the capture and export of most of their native wildlife and as such there is no poaching of wildlife, it is all perfectly legal!<\/p>\n
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When we started working in Guyana our focus was on offering the world the true vision of what parrots are, wild and perfectly evolved to their environment, not an ornament for our homes or an amusing “companion” held captive for our own vanity. We soon learned that Guyana offered a wealth of amazing “life list” sightings! This trip offered up the Crested Doradito, the Sun Parakeet and the Harpy Eagle!<\/p>\n Guyana offers all of us the chance to preserve a quickly vanishingresource not to mention the opportunity to discover what must be a wealth of new species in areas never before explored or examined by any scientist. Will we beat the oil and mining companies to this gem or will we watch as history repeats itself and this valuable asset vanishes? Foster Parrots escorts two trips a year to Guyana and now features a three day visit to Kaieteur falls. For more information please email me at marc@fosterparrots.com and check out the information athttp:\/\/www.wildrupununi.com or http:\/\/www.fosterparrots.com<\/p>\n \n \n