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Parrot on the Way to Extinction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Carl G. Jones
Carl G. Jones
Affiliation:
ICBP/WWF Project, c/o Forestry Quarters, Black River, Mauritius.
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Abstract

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With numbers down to under ten birds and no evidence of successful breeding since 1975, the endemic echo parakeet in Mauritius seems doomed to extinction very soon. The main reasons are the destruction and degradation of the native forest on which these fruit-eating parrots depend and competition with introduced macaque monkeys and another parakeet, aided by cyclones that have defoliated and stripped trees of their fruit. All attempts at captive breeding have failed and numbers are now too low to consider translocation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , August 1980 , pp. 350 - 354
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1980

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