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They were presented at an international gala ceremony held in Prague in the Czech Republic. To date the Parrot Society UK has


donated £ 2,800 to the public awareness activities in Colombia. However, the bus has now unfortunately become unusable after years of travelling the rough country roads there and a new bus must be acquired and re-fitted to continue this important campaign.


The second project in Bolivia, which


began in 2009, had as its objective the education of the Bolivian public on the realities of the illegal pet trade in order to motivate public and institutional support towards the enforcement of existing laws against the trade of Bolivian wildlife. An under-cover study carried out in Santa Cruz, a major city in Bolivia, had highlighted the seriousness of the illegal trade in birds. In a twelve month period


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