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Maquenque Eco Lodge Costa Rica - GREEN MACAWS
The great green macaw (Ara ambigua) has a limited distribution in the Atlantic wet lowlands of Central America, from Honduras to northern Colombia, with a small isolated population in Guayaquil, Ecuador. In Costa Rica, this species is currently limited to the Northern Zone, more specifically to the area between the San Carlos, San Juan, and Sarapiquí rivers extending to the northern foothills of the Central Volcanoes Range. It highly depends on the almendro tree (Dipteryx panamensis) both for feeding and nesting substrate. This species is listed in Appendix I of CITES, which means that it is endangered. |
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The Great Green Macaw Research and Conservation Project, begun in 1994 as a study of the ecology and habitat needs of this species in the Northern Zone, has developed an important biological data base on this species, which in fact represents the only significant information of this type in Central America. The project was started by conservation biologist George V. N. Powell, PhD., who was concerned about the diminishing range of the great green macaw following the increasingly intensive clearing of its forest habitat for cattle grazing and agriculture. The project is currently backed by the Tropical Science Center, which also manages the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Preserve. The concerns of the project's founders were supported by the project's first-year findings that the nesting range of these macaws in Costa Rica had already been reduced by 90% since the early Twentieth Century.
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Maquenque Eco Lodge, Boca Tapada, Costa Rica
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