Mehd & Lena Halouate are friends of mine whom I originally met via Facebook and last year in person.  Mehd is the Indonesia Project Manager for the World Parrot Trust and his biography can be found on their website.

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Conservation efforts in Indonesia are extremely challenging yet incredibly important, as many species there exist nowhere else in the world. Indonesia’s size, tropical climate, and island chain geography support the world’s second highest level of biodiversity, a unique mixture of flora and fauna.

In this podcast, Mehd Halaouate sheds light on the status of conservation efforts in Indonesia – the challenges and their solutions for moving forward to save some of the world’s rarest parrots.

Related reading (excerpts from PsittaScene Magazine, Spring 2014):
– Island Hopping – Search for the Red-and-blue Lory
– Where the Lories Landed

The heartbreaking photos of the captured Lories highlight why conservation projects and ecotourism are so important.  I highly recommend joining the World Parrot Trust to get their quarterly magazine and keep up to date with their projects.

Help WPT protect these Lories!

Support the Red-and-blue Lory Project
– Donate to save the Red-and-blue Lories