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The Red-and-Green Macaw Reintroduction

ProjectNoelia L. Volpe

Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral

•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

The IberáWetlands

Map by Cristian Schneider (2010 SCGIS scholar)

Introduction

The Conservation Land Trust (CLT)

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Doug and Kris Tompkins

Tapir Jaguar

Giant ant-eater Pampas deer Collared peccary

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Red-and-Green Macaw

Red-and-Green Macaw(Ara chloropterus)

•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

Red-and-Green Macaw(Ara chloropterus)

•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

Red-and-Green Macaw(Ara chloropterus)

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Quarentine

Pre-release

Release

Captivity

Steps

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First release attempt (October 2015)

7 individualsHard release:

- 1 month inside release enclosure- no rehabilitation process

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Beginning Stages

Not successful

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First release attempt (October 2015)

First release attempt (October 2015)

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2 individuals predated by wildcat

1 individual dead for unknown causes

3 individuals dispersed outside our detection range

1 individual recaptured

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•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

Feeder Feeder

Flight training

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8m 25m

Living enclosure Flight tunnel

Rethinking the process

Recognizing feeding platforms

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•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

Learning navigation

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Promoting exploration

Second release attempt (June 2017)

Current situation

•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

•Introduction •Beginning stages •Rethinking the process •Current situation •Moving Forward

JUNE 20178 forest patches

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NOVEMBER 201730 forest patches

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MAY 201859 forest patches

(73.5 ha)

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11 km

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12 released macaws

2 predation events1 dispersion event

More macaws in training stage

12 months later…

27 spof wild fruits

Use of nest boxes

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Seed dispersal

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• Increasing the number of macaws

Captive breeding International donations

(UK)

(Brasil)

Moving forward

• Expand to new sites

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- Analyzing space/time use patterns (kernel distribution, Thiessen polygons, time cubes?)

- Modelling resource-distribution in time and space

- Using Survey 1,2,3 for data collection

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GIS

Lo que sea!

Salidas al pueblo

Caballos

Transportar cosas MR-San Ignacio

Cosas tecnologicas

Cosas en las que yo los puedoayudarQuestions?