BY


VICKIE LILLO


GUYANA’S NORTHERN


AMAZONIA: LOKONO-ARAWAK AMERINDIANS OPEN ECO-LODGE ON PAKURI RESERVATION, A 240-SQUARE MILE ‘PARROT SAFE ZONE’, AS DECREED BY TRIBAL LAW


2003 – Tribal Council – Pakuri Arawak Territory, Guyana With the national government’s sanction allowing the exportation of over 30,000 parrots and macaws per year into the


14 BIRD SCENE


foreign pet trade markets of Europe and Asia, Guyana faces the eventual extinction of its 30 species of psittacines. Twenty-two of those species make their home on the Lokono-Arawak reservation


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