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This month we're highlighting Bizzy, our Goffin's Cockatoo, and taking a closer look at how her species lives in the wild.
Native to Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands, Goffin's Cockatoos spend their days flying, foraging, solving problems, chewing, socializing with their flock, and exploring a constantly changing environment. Their lives are active, complex, and full of choice.
Understanding that natural lifestyle helps us provide better care in human care. While captivity can never fully replicate life in the wild, knowing how parrots evolved allows us to make thoughtful choices. From offering opportunities to forage and shred, to encouraging movement, problem-solving, and social interaction whenever possible.
Every enrichment toy, fresh meal, aviary design, and individualized care plan is rooted in one goal: giving parrots the opportunity to express as many natural behaviors as we can.
If you'd like to help protect Goffin's Cockatoos in their native habitat, learn more about conservation efforts through the World Parrot Trust:
parrots.org/encyclopedia/tanimbar-corella/
If you'd like to support Bizzy and the rest of our flock, consider becoming her sponsor or making a donation. Your generosity helps provide nutritious food, enrichment, veterinary care, and the lifelong sanctuary every resident deserves. www.maars.org/support-bizzy/
By protecting wild parrots and providing exceptional care for those already in human care, we can help create a better future for this remarkable species.
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How Commercial Animal Industries Produce Cruelty
In the next part of our conversation with undercover investigator, author, and advocate Pete Paxton, Pete steps back from what he witnessed inside a commercial bird-breeding operation and looks at a pattern he has seen throughout decades of investigating animal industries.
“The less human interaction with animals in a commercial environment, the more neglect. The more human interaction, the more violence.”
From bird-breeding facilities and egg farms to other intensive animal industries, Pete describes systems where large numbers of animals must be managed quickly and inexpensively. In those environments, individual needs can become secondary to efficiency and production.
His point is an important one: cruelty cannot always be explained simply by pointing to individual “bad actors.” We also have to examine the systems and economic pressures that allow neglect and suffering to become routine.
Different species. Different industries. But Pete has seen the same patterns again and again.
Go back and watch other clips from this interview.
Animals are individuals! Not units of production!
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