Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner: The Parrot Crisis

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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“And so I've been doing this for about 40 years, and I still don’t get tired of seeing parrots. I see a parrot or I see a bird and I go, I belong. There is such beauty in the world. Oh my gosh. It's like everything is okay for a minute you're intrigued, you're curious, you're seeing beauty, you're seeing flight. But at the same time, you've trained yourself to hold the tragedy because there aren't nearly as many as there used to be and there's all kinds of complex threats against them, and there's little we can do. So you see a wild parrot that is also the internal conversation, they're in trouble, it's not like it was or it should be or could be. So that's what it's like to see a parrot is to see the beautiful and the tragic.” – Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

I only learned recently that parrots are the most endangered group of birds on the planet. As with so many other species, our tendency to take and take is what is driving parrots toward extinction. We've been stealing them from the wild for 60 years to live these pitiful lives in cages, in people's kitchens. That, combined with habitat loss and climate change is pushing these spectacular birds to the brink of extinction.

This conversation is with Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner, a wildlife veterinarian, a conservationist, a Unitarian minister, and co-founder of One Earth Conservation. LoraKim has spent the last 40 years in Latin and South America, working with communities to save their parrots – by building their capacity to transform poachers into protectors.

One Earth Conservation grows conservationists of all ages by empowering and standing in solidarity and resistance with the people of the Americas. They have projects in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Guyana, Paraguay, and Suriname.

To learn more: https://www.oneearthconservation.org/

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0:00.0	Species,
0:08.0	species.
0:09.0	Unite, unite.
0:11.0	So I've been doing this for about 40 years and I still don't get tired of seeing parrots.
0:20.1	I see a parrot or I see a I go I belong there is such beauty in the world
0:27.2	Oh my gosh it's like everything is okay for a minute you're intrigued you're curious seeing beauty, you're seeing flight, but at the same time you've trained yourself to hold the tragedy because there aren't nearly as many as there used to be and there's all kinds of complex threats against them and there's little we can do.
0:44.6	So you see a wild parrot, that is also the internal conversation.
0:50.2	They're in trouble, it's not like it was or it should be or could be. So that's what it's like to see a
0:56.3	parrot is to see the beautiful and the tragic. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask.
1:13.9	If you like today's episode and you have a spare minute,
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1:20.4	on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to Podcasts. It endangered group of birds on the planet.
1:41.4	And like with so many other species, our tendency to take and take is what's driving
1:47.4	parrots toward extinction.
1:49.9	We've been taking them from the wild for 60 years so that they can live these really pitiful
1:55.4	lives in people's kitchens in cages.
1:58.9	So today I am speaking with Reverend Laura Kim Joyner on how we can help parrots and turn some of this around.
2:07.7	Laura Kim is a wildlife veterinarian, a conservationist, a Unitarian minister minister and co-founder of One Earth Conservation.
2:16.0	She has spent the last 40 years in Latin and South America
2:20.0	working with communities to save their parrots. Welcome Lord Kim. I'm super happy that you're here. I'm really honored and I also I'm feeling really ignorant and I'm embarrassed to say
2:46.7	this but it's true I really haven't thought much about parrots because they're not in my life
2:52.4	it just hasn't come into my sphere parrots because they're not in my life.
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