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Defenders in Action: Study Assesses Status of Yellow-Headed Amazon
Researchers from Mexico’s Monterrey Institute of Technology are conducting a country-wide population survey for the yellow-headed amazon, an endangered parrot species, to determine its status. The study, funded jointly by Defenders and the Mexican government, is the first of its kind in nearly 10 years. The last survey, published in 1994 but based on earlier research, found that yellow-headed amazons had declined by at least 90 percent in the preceding two decades. The results of this new study will be used to assess the current trend -- which is most likely downward -- and set conservation priorities for the next few years, hopefully including a ban on further international trade of these birds as pets.
