We did it thank to YOU!!

We are happy to announce that we have reached to our fundraising campaign goal. Thank you so much to all of our donors for your generosity. After working so hard for so many years on the study and conservation of macaws, it means a great deal to us that you appreciate our work enough to support it in this way.

 

Left: Indy (14 days old), middle: Parker (11 days old) and right: Paco (9 days old) this afternoon in our nursery

We are fortunate that after our great success, we still have over 2 weeks to go in our online campaign. As a result, we hope that we can continue our success and expand our project a little bit more.

On our last experiment.com campaign las year, our backers helped us reach 127% of our target. With those extra funds we got on a solar system to power our new refrigerator / freezer because our old one broke in the middle of the breeding season. This system is now up and running and keeping our chick food and biological samples cold. It is a huge improvement over our previous propane fridge.

In the last two weeks of our campaign, we are hoping to raise the funds to add an additional solar panel and battery so we can run both the refrigerator and the macaw chick brooders simultaneously. Our current macaw chick brooder system requires us to repeatedly change from generator to car battery and back again multiple times a day and night. With the expansion of the solar system, we can maintain a much more reliable source of power, 24 hrs a day and keep the chicks warm at a constant temperature. This is extremely important for young macaw chicks because drops in temperature can slow down digestion and lead to stunting or death.

Please, help us out by sharing our campaign with others so we can improve our system for raising and saving these beautiful birds of the rainforest!