(Animals) They promote a campaign against the illegal trafficking of wild birds

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They seek to reduce the hunting of the cardinal and the parrot, both birds in danger of extinction

The Venezuelan environmental NGO Provita announced Monday that it has launched a project to promote "behavior change" and "reduce the demand for illegal trade in wild birds."

They seek to reduce the hunting of the cardinal and the parrot, both birds in danger of extinction

The Venezuelan environmental NGO Provita announced Monday that it has launched a project to promote "behavior change" and "reduce the demand for illegal trade in wild birds."

The program seeks to "promote the adoption of good practices in the design, implementation and evaluation of focused educational and communication campaigns" and has the support of the United Kingdom Government through the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund program, Provita explained in a statement cited by EFE.

The executive director of Provita, Bibiana Sucre, indicated that the NGO project was selected among 180 applications from different countries and is the first that this program of the British Government finances in Venezuela.

In his opinion, this project "represents an opportunity to demonstrate that the demand for wildlife can be reduced with the positive participation of communities and by changing the relationship that these actors have with fauna, to achieve a win-win for nature and communities." persons".

As part of the program and over the next three years, professionals from different disciplines such as ecology, social communication, education, sociology and project management "will unite their experiences and skills to design educational and communication campaigns," the NGO clarified.

The focus will be "reducing the demand for two species of Venezuelan birds threatened by illegal wildlife trafficking: the yellow-headed parrot (Amazona barbadensis) and the little cardinal (Spinus cucullatus)".

The design, implementation and evaluation of these campaigns will be supported by Venezuelan organizations such as the Leslie Pantin Zoo, the Rural Financing Foundation (FUNDEFIR), the Government of the island state of Nueva Esparta and the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC).

International partners such as the Smithsonian National Zoo, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Netherlands Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will also collaborate.

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