Lizard canary great di es
ONE OF THE country’s top lizard canary breeders, Alex Forrest, has died at 83. Mr Forrest, from Bellsquarry near Livingstone, Scotland, passed away on Monday May 6 after a long battle with stomach cancer. He was president of the Scottish Lizard Canary Association (SLCA) and had kept various bird species for most of his life, but he was best known for being the only lizard breeder ever to win top bird at the Scottish National. SLCA secretary Sandy Innes said that Mr Forrest will be sorely missed: “I knew him from Grangemouth CBC.
Brazil welcomes back Spix quartet
FOUR SPIX’S MACAWS (Cyanopsitta spixii) have made the journey from a specialised breeding unit in Spain to be introduced back into their native habitat in Brazil. In April, the birds, which are officially classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, were transferred from the Loro Parque Fundación (LPF) in Tenerife to new accommodation in Brazil as part of a captiveb reeding recovery programme. They will continue to be managed in captivity, with future progeny likely to be released into the wild by 2020. Led by the LPF, the programme began in the early 1990s and to date has a total population in captivity of 79.
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