The P4P Challenge 2009 will support the World Parrot Trust’s
Thick-billed Parrot Program

Your donations will support:

• Engaging local communities to use their natural resources in a sustainable manner through increased education thereby preserving the biodiversity of theThick-billed Parrots area.
• Intensively managing captive populations to prepare them for potential releases in future years to re-establish the birds in parts of their former range.
• Continuing the development of translocation and captive release techniques as a management tool for wild and captive birds.
• Undertaking genetic research to determine how best to manage both the wild and the captive bird populations ensuring the species’ long-term genetic viability.
• Conducting disease research, particularly focusing on West Nile virus, an important disease in both people and captive
• Thick-billed Parrots.
• Studying the effects of global warming on the remaining habitat (evident in increased destructive fires and insect damage)
• Introducing ecotourism and craft development projects to bring income
• to the local people and to encourage non-consumptive use of habitat areas.

P4P Challenge 2009 Winning Prizes

The highest fund raising group will receive the following items (may change depending on the year):

• Logo on the CPC tote bag
• Full page recognition in the CPC Event Program
• Two (2) CPC tote bags filled with goodies (parrot toys, etc.—great for club raffles or gifts)
• Two (2) full weekend passes to the Canadian Parrot Conference
  (can be raffled off within the organization or given to the 2 highest fund raisers in your club)