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Parrot Crisis Summit 2024
The Parrot Crisis Summit, a global gathering to raise awareness and form action plans, aims do decrease the harm of the parrot trade.
LoraKim Joyner
May 17
Parrot Conservationists Burdened with Glorious Purpose
Parrot conservation is a burden with glorious purpose. We come together in solidarity with all of life, making promises and commitment.
LoraKim Joyner
Mar 9, 2021
Decolonization Part 2
We center our work ever more on relationships, community empowerment, grassroots fundraising, and decolonization.
LoraKim Joyner
Feb 22, 2021
Conservación Transformadora para Poner Fin a la Muerte Trágica
¡Estoy cansada de la muerte!Quiero trabajar por la vida, arriesgando todo lo que pueda por la transformación de las prácticas de la sociedad
LoraKim Joyner
May 20, 2020
Transformative Conservation
TC in the context of climate change depends on such “outer” (societal) and “inner” (personal) transformations supporting and reinforcing one
by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jul 30, 2019
Parrots are People Too
Life is an interconnected whole, and if we help relieve oppression or injustice in one location by getting at the root causes of domination,
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Apr 17, 2019
Merchants and Parrots: Selling Parrots is Selling Our Souls, Freeing Parrots is Freeing Ourselves
Only by diminishing our ego's need to dominate, can we live truly free. Love dissolves the bars of perceived separation. We live joined
LoraKim Joyner
Mar 19, 2019
Parrot Conservation is a Team Sport
I wish you deep meaning in your love for parrots, and to all of us that have relationships to them, and I also know that we must face the ha
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Feb 20, 2019
How To Keep Parrots Flying Free
In every country I work, I hear one story after another about how international buyers come to an area to buy adult birds, chicks and/or egg
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Dec 18, 2018
Dreaming Big
I dream that for every homed bird in the world, which number, 249,651,000, the owners contribute $1.00 for conservation. That comes to near
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Nov 27, 2018
Give of Yourself on Giving Tuesday: Decolonizing Fundraising
Anthropologists, economists, and philosophers have argued that nonprofits continue the colonization process by benefiting from a system that
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Aug 2, 2018
Mourning as Co-liberation
Freeing ourselves and all life begins with mourning as a necessary action step. We do not mourn to feel better, but with the aim to liberate
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jun 13, 2018
Mourning Over Puerto Rico
Conservation then begins with mourning because the past is riddled with human domination and violence. We have to hold that in our hearts wh
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Apr 10, 2018
Child Protection Services for Parrots
There is also a strong relationship between parents and offspring, and it begins in the egg. One recent study showed that some bird chicks
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner with Gail Koelln
Mar 13, 2018
Understanding Intersectionality for the Freedom of All
Though we all are oppressors and oppressed, we are not bound by these cultural constraints. We need resilience because we tread a fragile pa
Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jan 17, 2018
Parrot Welfare Brigades - Flying Towards Freedom
Hondurans are undergoing civil unrest after a suspicious electoral process for President in late 2017 that is widely seen as fraudulent. Th
Dr. Eric A. Kreuter
Jan 2, 2018
The Freedom Project - None Are Free Until All Are Free
Housing one bred bird, as lovingly as possible, may stimulate conscious thought to the concept of relative freedom and what our responsibili
From the field, our Nurture Nature Program, and our staff!
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