Parrots+and+People

The parrot population is decreasing because people are using their homes for logging, farming, and building...The loggers take down their logging trucks and cut down the trees, and thats what the birds make their nests in. The high branches keep them safe from preditors. They use the wood to make malls, stores, homes, and all other kinds of things. Then the birds have no where to go. Instead of replanting the trees for the birds, the government sells off the land.  Here are some things that make the parrot population decrease


 * Hunting
 * wide spread forset clearing
 * wild animals
 * logging
 * farming
 * building
 * Smuggling

 All these things are destroying the parrots' homes and when humans go an do these things they dont even stop to think about what their doing to the population. Parrots eat all the sorts of insect you dont like, such as spiders, scorpions, snakes, ants, beetles, ect. without them eating the insects, the population of insect would keep going up and they would keep breeding and we would have to many of them, so thats one of the reasons its so important to keep parrots around.

 There is a certain type of parrot that is nearly extinct. its called the Black Palm Cockatoo. The Black Palm Cockatoos are now endangerd and nearly extinct because of loggers destroying their habitat. Trees in the forest are cut down and decrease their home. Also, because of the high demand of them as pets, these birds die during shipping or they don't adjust to the new environment and suffer severley.

 The Black Palm Cockatoo is from Australia and New Guinea. It mostly lives in rainforests. it may be the largest parrot species and largest parrot in Australia. The only parrot thats bigger is the hyacinth macaw. It has a human like call that almost sounds like a "hello" when it makes its call.

 So my suggestion would be when the loggers go up and cut the trees that they want, then when there all done, the forest service should go and re-plants them. it would be a shamed for the population of parrots go completely extinct because alot of people enjoy there company and love listing to the beautiful calls that they make an going to look at them in the wild.