Natural History Wanderings

MongaBay reports on a farmer who helps protect Indonesia’s threatened parrots

• Jamal Adam, a former farmer, began volunteering with forest rangers on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island before joining the region’s largest bird sanctuary when the rehabilitation facility opened in 2019.
• The Halmahera center admits mostly parrots on site and rehabilitates numerous species before later releasing them back into the wild.
• Indonesia’s North Maluku province historically saw relatively low tree cover loss compared to the rest of the country, but groups have raised concerns that a local nickel mining boom will threaten bird habitat in the medium term.

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