The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour developed a comprehensive conservation plan for the St. Vincent Parrot, Amazona Guildingii in 2005.
This plan was based on work which began since 1980, and guided conservation activities to facilitate the maintenance of a stable population in the wild.
St Vincent Parrot is endemic to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and is the flagship species of the country. The parrot population is estimated to be 850-900 birds in the wild and remains threatened by both natural and anthropogenic factors and are considered to be endangered.
To reduce these threats, small ex-situ breeding populations are maintained outside St Vincent and the Grenadines to be used for re-establishment of the population in the possibility of a catastrophic event.
The government has partnered with several agencies over the years to support the conservation of this endangered bird. Our main partner in these efforts is the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP), an NGO registered in Germany.
This agency maintains an active breeding program on behalf of the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. On the 4th November 2019, three (3) of these two-year-old Parrots that were reared as part of the ex-situ breeding program would be returned to the state.
