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After years of preparation, my PhD student George Olah finally got what he wanted. A special permission from the government of Peru. The 50+ page document gave him access to the Holy Grail of parrot researchers: the Candamo Basin, in the Peruvian Amazon. A place where wildlife exists without any human disturbance since the beginning of times. Surrounded by the foothills of the Andes, the Candamo Basin hosts one of the very few uninhabited tropical rainforest of the world. Not even native tribes had settled here and decades had passed since the last camera team dared to sail the hostile rapids of the Candamo river. Wildlife Messengers produced a stunning documentary movie, The Macaw Kingdom, about our research expeditions. Watch the trailer below or the full documentary.
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Our new paper was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Crates R, Langmore N, Ranjard L, Stojanovic D, Rayner L, Ingwersen D, Heinsohn R (2021) Loss of vocal culture and fitness costs in a critically endangered songbird. Proc. R. Soc. B 20210225. Several major media outlets picked up the study: Palm cockatoos, the focal species of our newest paper published in Biological Conservation, are featured in the BBC News. Keighley MV, Haslett S, Zdenek CN, Heinsohn R (2021) Slow breeding rates and low population connectivity indicate Australian palm cockatoos are in severe decline. Biological Conservation 253:108865. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108865 A video abstract of the peer-reviewed paper "Comparison of three techniques for genetic estimation of effective population size in a critically endangered parrot" published in Animal Conservation (2020). doi:10.1111/ACV.12655 Authors: Olah G & Stojanovic D, Webb MH, Waples R, Heinsohn R. A video abstract of our peer-reviewed paper “Parrots of Oceania – A comparative study of extinction risk” published in Emu – Austral Ornithology (2018) doi:10.1080/01584197.2017.1410066 Authors: George Olah, Jörn Theuerkauf, Andrew Legault, Roman Gula, John Stein, Stuart Butchart, Mark O’Brien, Robert Heinsohn We made a video abstract about our recent paper 'Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots' published in Biodiversity and Conservation. Watch it, it's only 4 mins! Many thanks to Filmjungle.eu Productions. |
AuthorRob Heinsohn is a Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Biology at the Australian National University Archives
September 2023
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