Partners:
0fficial website of the Cape Parrot Working Group
Please contact us at info@capeparrottrust.org for more
information on Cape Parrot conservation and how you can
get involved...
Current and future projects:

  • Amathole Cape Parrot Project:  Long-term study of the ecology of Cape
    Parrots in the wild (specifically tracking their long range movements);

  • Cape Parrot Big Birding Day:  Annual coordinated counts throughout their
    distributional range;

  • Wild-caught bird trade lobby:  Program in collaboration with the World
    Parrot Trust focusing on ending the wild-caught bird trade in Africa through
    legislation, law enforcement, community upliftment programs and support of
    captive breeding programs;

  • Cape Parrot Forum:  A network of birders living within the distributional
    range of Cape Parrots that report all feeding and breeding activity noted in their
    local area; and

  • Cape Parrot Heritage Project:  An brand development initiative led by
    Yellowwood Brand Architects to bring the Cape Parrot into the public eye
    through popular publications, television, news media, posters, magazines, and
    promotional work in local communities.  Primary aim:  To make the Cape Parrot
    as important as the Blue Crane in the eyes of South African.  These parrots are
    uniquely South African and heritage value to all South Africans.
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"We need your help, we need it now, please..."

    Our aim is to finance the
    activities of the Cape Parrot
    Working Group in order to:


  • Foster national pride in the Cape Parrot, the only
    exclusively South African parrot and ambassador
    of our Afromontane forests;

  • Manage and coordinate captive breeding
    programs by assisting PAAZAB with the Cape
    Parrot studbook;

  • Ensure the preservation and restoration of the
    habitat, Afromontane mixed yellowwood mistbelt
    forests, of the Cape Parrots;

  • Guarantee an effective law enforcement system (e.
    g. DNA fingerprinting and micro-chipping) for
    protecting the Cape Parrot populations in the wild;

  • Support  sustainable development and poverty
    eradication for communities in the Cape Parrot’s
    range; and

  • Actively monitor the wild-caught bird trade in
    South Africa, identify illegal traders, and halt the
    exploitation of local communities by profiteering
    middlemen.
www.capeparrottrust.org
CAPE PARROT TRUST
Heritage. Research. Conservation. Action
News and Events:

  • 2009 CAPE PARROT WORKING GROUP AGM:  
  • Cape Parrot Big Birding Day:  Was held on the 4th and 5th May 2009.  

  • Dr. Steve Boyes appointed coordinator of CPWG: Steve recently
    completed his PhD thesis on the ecology of the Meyer's Parrot in the Okavango
    Delta, Botswana, and is the principal investigatof of the new Amathole Cape
    Parrot Heritage Project based out of Hogsback.,  For more background
    information, use the following link:  AfricaSkyBlue

  • PBFD in Hogsback:  Possible incidence of Psittacine Beak and Feather
    Disease (PBFD) in population of wild Cape Parrots in Hogsback.  Please send
    any photos or reports on sightings of Cape Porrots in poor condition, describing
    the state of their feathers and beak.  Also, we would appreciate comment on this
    picture supplied by Graham Russell of Hogsback, Eastern Cape...
Get involved:


  • DONATE to the Cape Parrot Trust;


  • VOLUNTEER on the Hogsback Cape Parrot Project for a day, a week or longer;

  • Become a Cape Parrot Ambassador and raise funds independently with
    the full support of the CPWG (i.e. provision of all fundraising materials and a
    "ambassador"@capeparrottrust.org email address;

  • If see Cape Parrots in your area, please register and become a Cape Parrot
    Guardian responsible for monitoring yellowwood tree-felling in your area and
    any trade in wild-caught Cape Parrots;

  • If you are a resident within the Cape Parrot distributional range then please join
    the Cape Parrot Forum;

    on the conservation of Cape Parrots in the wild; and

  • Job opportunity for a research assistant in the Hogsback-Alice-King
    William's Town-Stutterheim Area.  Must have experience in wildlife research or
    related field.