Amazing Wattled curassow art week!!!!

Last week of September was nothing but GREAT for the Wattled curassow!! A group of very talented artist from several countries in the world (members of the "52 Weeks Nature Painting Challenge" Facebook group, coordinated by the artist Kitty Harvill), dedicated the whole week to create wonderful artistic tributes to the Wattled curassow. Some of the paintings were inspired in pictures of the species captured in the camera trap survey we did last year. The results where more than amazing!

Thank you so much to all artists participating for their beautiful contributions! Paintings will be used for educational purposes, to raise awareness and help spread the voice about the importance of the conservation and care of this marvelous and endangered species!

You can see in detail each painting in the section "Art gallery" of this site!!

(Collage done by Kitty Harvill).

The Wattled Curassow was present in Trinidad and Tobago!

XICIMFAUNA

XI International Congress on Management of Amazonian and

Latin American Wildlife

                  St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, 17 - 22 August 2014

We participated on the XI CIMFAUNA, held in The University of West Indies, in Trinidad and Tobago, presenting some preliminary data about the population status of the Wattled Curassow in the Lower Purus River. We want to thank you the organization committee of the congress and all trinitarian people: we had a great time!

The island of Trinidad is the home of another rare and very endangered cracid, the Trinidad Piping Guan (Aburria pipile). This species, locally known as "Pawi", is endemic of Trinidad and is considered as "Critically Endangered". You can find more information about this beautiful and threatened species here:  Pawi Study Group Website

Enjoy a marvelous painting of the Trinidad Piping-guan, done by Edward Rocks, and a picture of its habitat, taken in the National Park Marupa.

(All pictures taken by B. Marioni)

Curassow censuses are going on!

This rainy season we are continuing with curassow censuses in the northern region of the reserve....

.. and t is so amazing each time we can see one of them in the wild! Here in the picture you can see a wattled curassow female, hidden very high, up in the forest canopy!

Spreading the voice about the importance of conserving the Wattled curassow and its endangered habitat!

As a part of our educational activities, we produced and distributed full-color folders and posters about the importance of conserving the Wattled curassow, as well his endangered habitat- the várzea- during talks to habitants and childrens in several communities and schools of the Reserve Piagaçu Purus!  

Some of our results, presented on the "11o Simpósio sobre Conservação e Manejo Participativo na Amazônia" organized by the Instituto Mamirauá, this week in Tefé, Brazil.

Citation: Bertsch, C., Durigan, C. & K. Didier. 2014. OCORRÊNCIA E ABUNDÂNCIA RELATIVA DE DUAS ESPÉCIES DE MUTUM, Crax globulosa E Mitu tuberosa (CRACIDAE, AVES), NA RESERVA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL PIAGAÇU-PURUS, AMAZÔNIA CENTRAL, BRASIL. Pages 104-105 in: Livro de Resumos do 11 Simpósio sobre Conservação e Manejo Participativo na Amazônia. Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá. Tefé, Brazil.


Palavras-chave: Cracídeos, estimativa de abundância populacional, várzea.
Key-words: Cracidae, population abundance estimates, várzea habitat.


More information (to download the Abstract) about the event here: http://www.mamiraua.org.br/pt-br/eventos/11o-simposio-sobre-conservacao-e-manejo-participativo-na-amazonia/

Conserving Amazon Cracids is here! Conservando os Cracídeos Amazônicos já esta aqui!

Welcome!
We are so happy to start this site: curassows deserved it!
Here we will be posting some news and events that are happening in the project. Hope you enjoy and find interesting.
We leave you with theses two spectacular illustrations of both our study species, made by Albert Earl Gilbert !

Sejam bem-vindos!
Estamos muito felizes de começar esta pagina na web: os mutum o mereciam mesmo!
Neste espaço estaremos publicando notícias e eventos que estão acontecendo no âmbito do projeto. Desejamos que as desfrutem e achem interessantes.
Aqui duas ilustrações espetaculares das duas espécies de estudo do nosso projeto, realizadas pelo Albert Earl Gilbert!

Mitu tuberosa

Crax globulosa