Paradise Park

Wildlife Sanctuary • Cornwall

Events and things to do throughout the year including Easter Egg Hunts, summer flying displays, Quiz trails around the Park, Halloween Pumpkin Trail and more.

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Make it a birthday to remember with your choice of four themed party rooms with the birthday child’s name displayed on the door.

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One of the main jobs for our Keepers is creating fun, interesting, interactive enrichment activities which are key in encouraging a range of normal behaviours that birds and mammals find rewarding, providing them with mental stimulation, social interaction and exercise.

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Latin Name: Ara glaucogularis
Status: Critically Endangered
Population: There may be just 125 birds left in the wild.
Distribution: Bolivia

Blue-throated Macaw

This long-tailed member of the parrot family comes from flooded areas of tropical forest in Bolivia. It relies on palm trees, for nests and for its favourite food, palm nuts.

Tragically it was trapped to near-extinction, and is now one of the world’s rarest birds – there may be just 125 birds left in the wild.

Once animals are this rare they may find it difficult to locate mates and produce young. The World Parrot Trust, based at Paradise Park, is already supporting the remaining birds, and now has a project to release captive bred birds in the very large areas where the habitat can support them.

Cornish bred macaws travel to Bolivia 2013

Bolivian Community Creates Vast Reserve to Protect Critically Endangered Wildlife 2017

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