Protecting the Blue-throated Macaw | Tjalle | FFN Award Winner 2020

Tjalle's presentation video at the Virtual FFN Award Event of 2020
Tjalle Boorsma is a Dutch biologist who left his homeland to protect the critically endangered Blue-throated Macaw in Bolivia, of which only 400-450 individuals are left in the wild. Tjalle discovered their previously unknown nesting sites and gained crucial information for designing a conservation programme for these amazing birds. Key to this is the development of strategies with private cattle ranchers to assure landscape scale conservation, adopting sustainable best-practice ranching techniques that demonstrate improved productivity and economic revenues.
He also combined all the gathered information to mimic breeding habitats for the macaws in Barba Azul with a pioneering design of a penthouse nestbox. In addition, Tjalle coordinated the purchase of a 680 ha reserve protecting crucial breeding habitat.
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Hi Tjalle! Its great seeing you again! You are doing such great work!