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CITES upgrades African Grey Parrots to Appendix I

Posted by Parrot Essentials on 4th Oct 2016

African Grey Parrots’ status was upgraded to “Appendix I”. In a meeting held in Johannesburg in September 2016, the U.N.s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CIT … read more

African Grey Parrots need our help to survive.

Posted by Parrot Essentials on 18th Aug 2016

African Grey Parrots are almost extinct and have become a rare site in the wild. In the past 40 years over 1.3 million Grey Parrots have been legally exported. Many of the birds are poorly treated and … read more

African Grey Parrots Disappearing

Posted by Parrot Essentials on 12th Feb 2016

Numbers of African Grey parrots is in decline according to the National Geographic due to lost of natural habitat and high demands by the pet trade. Even though the United States and European Union ha … read more

Gracie, a rising star!

Posted by Parrot Essentials on 9th Oct 2015

Gracie is an African Grey owned by Anguel Iordanov of Parrot Essentials and has hit the headlines on more than one occasion. Despite her now many attributes, she was once a weak fledging on whom it wa … read more