what we have here is 10k parts all of
which died of passata scene beak and
feather disease the virus that is
attacking the wild population beyond the
ten dead parrots that we see here what
makes the scene most disturbing is the
fact that this represents over 1% of the
global population of Cape Air’s
the Cape parrot is the most endangered
parrot in Africa with less than 800 left
there chose intelligently so thousands
of years ago to specialize in this super
abundant tree the yellow with 99% of the
feeding was done on yellow wood fridge
the perfect fat content perfect protein
country perfect carbohydrate conquer the
perfect parrot food just recently we
managed to save for very sick pet
parrots
two three weeks of eating yellow wood
fruits the virus had disappeared in
three of them and after two months there
was no virus in any of them basically
from the moments we’ve discovered these
trees we’ve had a romance with them and
that romance ended up with us chopping
down almost all of the large elements
right here we have the industrialization
of our forests these used to be
indigenous forests full of parrots and
monkeys today their plantations much
easier to manage much easier to harvest
and get the wood we need for
international markets these forests used
to be filled with elephants the
grassland between the forests and above
them filled with massive herds of
buffalo there a lion and leopard it’s a
very wild place this is not a pristine
forest this is not as for us that can
support the indigenous species we want
to recreate what evolved to be we’re
going to the Okavango now to study the
ecology of the mayor’s pad to find out
how to save the Cape pair so we’re gonna
have to go to the mayor’s pad in the
Okavango in a world in this area that
hasn’t been touched hasn’t been managed
itself regulates an image of a place
from thousands of years ago a place we
haven’t impacted on yet but when you go
to a place like the Okavango Delta you
feel it all around you consumes you
it’s a place that I always say will make
you believe in God or a God because
that’s the image of perfection that’s
millions of years of natural selection
and evolution it’s perfection
just two weeks ago I was in the Okavango
Delta that my research site they’re
looking at the mayor’s parrot but when
you come to this place it’s not a
wilderness area anymore we’ve changed it
too much
we’ve asked too much of it and now we
must give back in the Okavango Delta
the birds are spoiled for choice for
thousands upon thousands of natural
cavities during their metolius on the
other hand there aren’t any we topped
all the large hardwoods at over the last
hundred and fifty years so it’s our
responsibility not to supply homes for
cavity nesting birds like the care
parrot and that’s exactly what we’re
doing my absolute low point in the
Shepherd project was the day the first
day a sick care parrot was entered into
us we quarantined them started feeding
them on natural food items most
especially the yellow wood instantly
started seeing a reaction
physiologically emotionally in those
birds most four birds are still alive
today
and we’re being very excited actually do
this release now I’m some reason very
very slowly
and the constant movements in the
peppers
and finding the minute they were back
really really bad condition in dem this
morning we actually released them back
into the wild
there was an extremely emotional time
for myself and the other people involved
in rehabilitating them to see them go
back dead birds flying it was a very
very special thing
which died of passata scene beak and
feather disease the virus that is
attacking the wild population beyond the
ten dead parrots that we see here what
makes the scene most disturbing is the
fact that this represents over 1% of the
global population of Cape Air’s
the Cape parrot is the most endangered
parrot in Africa with less than 800 left
there chose intelligently so thousands
of years ago to specialize in this super
abundant tree the yellow with 99% of the
feeding was done on yellow wood fridge
the perfect fat content perfect protein
country perfect carbohydrate conquer the
perfect parrot food just recently we
managed to save for very sick pet
parrots
two three weeks of eating yellow wood
fruits the virus had disappeared in
three of them and after two months there
was no virus in any of them basically
from the moments we’ve discovered these
trees we’ve had a romance with them and
that romance ended up with us chopping
down almost all of the large elements
right here we have the industrialization
of our forests these used to be
indigenous forests full of parrots and
monkeys today their plantations much
easier to manage much easier to harvest
and get the wood we need for
international markets these forests used
to be filled with elephants the
grassland between the forests and above
them filled with massive herds of
buffalo there a lion and leopard it’s a
very wild place this is not a pristine
forest this is not as for us that can
support the indigenous species we want
to recreate what evolved to be we’re
going to the Okavango now to study the
ecology of the mayor’s pad to find out
how to save the Cape pair so we’re gonna
have to go to the mayor’s pad in the
Okavango in a world in this area that
hasn’t been touched hasn’t been managed
itself regulates an image of a place
from thousands of years ago a place we
haven’t impacted on yet but when you go
to a place like the Okavango Delta you
feel it all around you consumes you
it’s a place that I always say will make
you believe in God or a God because
that’s the image of perfection that’s
millions of years of natural selection
and evolution it’s perfection
just two weeks ago I was in the Okavango
Delta that my research site they’re
looking at the mayor’s parrot but when
you come to this place it’s not a
wilderness area anymore we’ve changed it
too much
we’ve asked too much of it and now we
must give back in the Okavango Delta
the birds are spoiled for choice for
thousands upon thousands of natural
cavities during their metolius on the
other hand there aren’t any we topped
all the large hardwoods at over the last
hundred and fifty years so it’s our
responsibility not to supply homes for
cavity nesting birds like the care
parrot and that’s exactly what we’re
doing my absolute low point in the
Shepherd project was the day the first
day a sick care parrot was entered into
us we quarantined them started feeding
them on natural food items most
especially the yellow wood instantly
started seeing a reaction
physiologically emotionally in those
birds most four birds are still alive
today
and we’re being very excited actually do
this release now I’m some reason very
very slowly
and the constant movements in the
peppers
and finding the minute they were back
really really bad condition in dem this
morning we actually released them back
into the wild
there was an extremely emotional time
for myself and the other people involved
in rehabilitating them to see them go
back dead birds flying it was a very
very special thing
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