Graph of the wild population increase of the Philippine Cockatoo. Blue line – upper estimates: red line – lower estimates.
encompassed in the Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Programme (PCCP) led by Peter Widmann and Indira Lacerna- Widmann of the Katala Foundation Inc., have been supported by the Loro Parque Fundación, with US$1,816,201 and absolute trust that the strategy and the actions will pay off. This long-lived cockatoo is endemic to
the Philippines, and in 1950 it was common throughout the archipelago but then suffered a massive and rapid decline, most likely in the mid-1980s, which left a population of as few as 650 individuals, perhaps 89% of these being found on Palawan and its satellite islands. The main causes of its decline have been the destruction of lowland forest and mangroves, and trapping and poaching of nestlings, and the dire situation of the
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Philippine Cockatoo resulted in its listing in the IUCN Red List as ‘Critically Endangered’. In response, the PCCP set as its overall goal the stepwise down-listing of the species in the Red List, as indicated by an increasing self-sustained population within the natural range of the species. To achieve this, the PCCP has enacted a
broad array of conservation interventions, including nest protection and monitoring, applied research and population monitoring, protected area establishment and management, habitat restoration, rescue and captive management, translocation, capacity building, conservation education and advocacy. A key approach is the inclusion of former poachers as wildlife wardens for nest protection and monitoring, which not
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