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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Mar 13, 2019
A River Separates Hope - Macaw Conservation in Honduras and Nicaragua
There is a town in Nicaragua known as Esperanza, which means “Hope” in Spanish. Right now it doesn’t feel as if there is much hope there, as

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Mar 5, 2019
What Would Berta Cáceres Say?
Often people imagine the life of a field conservationist as being exciting. It can be, but it’s also a march through discomfort and unexpec

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Feb 25, 2019
Ring of Fire
Surrounded by a ring of fire. All around us we see evidence of the destructive nature of nature. This includes human nature, for it is wide


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
Feb 12, 2019
Parrots and People Carry Messages
We are journeying up and down the Pacific coast of Guatemala in the range of the endangered yellow-naped amazon. What message do we deliver


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Feb 4, 2019
Conservation: Take a Life, Give a Life
Perhaps that is what conservation is - to give back the lives we have taken. And success in the final accounting is not whether the species


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jan 29, 2019
eBird and gBird (Gone-birds)
Torn, I have nevertheless made a decision to no longer enter parrot data on eBird, at least temporarily. Given the fact that parrots are ne


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jan 24, 2019
Trucked on the Letham Road, Guyana
From the Get Real Dictionary: “field conservation (n): an approach to the preservation of species and ecosystems primarily by attending to n

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner with Gail Koelln
Jan 14, 2019
A List of Labor and Love
LoraKim is deep in the field in Guyana right now and I had not heard from her for a number of days. I've learned through the years not t


LoraKim Joyner
Jan 9, 2019
Fostering Parrots Here and There
We at One Earth Conservation conduct all of our conservation work in collaboration with others. Today, as LoraKim is in the field in Guyana,


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Jan 2, 2019
The Year of the Parrot
Santiago Lacuth, our field coordinator in Honduras wrote a song where he sings about his beloved ancestral lands. In this video, sung in Mis


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
Dec 12, 2018
Parrots Die by the Bucketful
This particular batch of ten scarlet macaw chicks were being transported in a bucket in the back of a truck traveling along the dirt road t


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Dec 4, 2018
Breaking the Illegal Wildlife Trade Chain Through Economic Support
Every conservation project is an art, and a dance of relationships, so direct community employment may not work in every region, with every


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


Parrot Nations
Nov 21, 2018
Parrot Gratitude
We parrots are birds of peace. It's not only doves that are working towards less conflict and violence - parrots too and the people who


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Nov 16, 2018
Partying and Productions for Parrots
We will be having a Holiday Parrot Party and Fundraiser on December 10, 2018 in Manhattan, NY. By sharing these films together we make sure


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Nov 5, 2018
Perfection in Parrot Conservation
Okay, first off, there is no such thing as "perfection" in conservation. It's an art that depends on so many factors, and the


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Oct 30, 2018
Rainbow Over Guatemala - Returning the Scarlet Macaw
Our hope is that the colors that once flew here - the oranges, the reds, and yellows of the scarlet macaw - return to Southern Guatemala. T


Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
Oct 24, 2018
The Breath and Breadth of Forest and Parrot Protectors – La Miskito, Honduras
Our community coordinator in the village of Rus Rus told me that in this area trees, creeks, and birds are the lungs of La Miskito, because
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