{"id":2131,"date":"2012-12-03T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2012\/12\/parrots-get-a-second-chance\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:55:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:55:05","slug":"parrots-get-a-second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/parrots-get-a-second-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Parrots Get a Second Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re featured in the November\/December issue of the Humane Society&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/news\/magazines\/2012\/11-12\/the_long_road_to_freedom.html\">All Animals<\/a> magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/parrotsecondchance.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Down the Pacific coast almost to the Costa Rica border, a non- profit called Paso Pacifico, using money from the Loro Parque Foundation and Parrots International, pays landowners to protect parrot nests from poachers, who are usually unemployed trespassers well-known in local communities for breaking the law. Lezama, the ornithologist, has recruited two former poachers to locate nests. Participants get $10 per nest protected and $40 for each fledgling who is hatched\u2014about the same amount a baby yellow- naped parrot would bring in the wildlife trade. It\u2019s important income for rural residents: One woman used it to pay off her tab at the local store and set up an emergency medical fund for a daughter who has epilepsy. Across the six sites where the program is being tried out, poaching rates have dropped to 30 percent from around 90 percent<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re featured in the November\/December issue of the Humane Society&#8217;s All Animals magazine: Down the Pacific coast almost to the Costa Rica border, a non- profit called Paso Pacifico, using money from the Loro Parque Foundation and Parrots International, pays landowners to protect parrot nests from poachers, who are usually unemployed trespassers well-known in local [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[215,210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events-celebrations","8":"category-wildlife-conservation","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}