Great Green Macaw Project

Costa Rica

Ara ambigua

Parrots International provided funding support to The Great Green Macaw Project/Centro Cientifico Tropical in Costa Rica on behalf of Olivier Chassot.

Olivier Chassot served as the lead investigator and the Director of the Great Green Macaw Project. Olivier, along with his wife Guisselle Monge, worrked with important conservation issues concerning the Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua).

Based on their research and conservation success they were instrumental in creating a series of land use policy changes by the Costa Rican Government, including a series of Biological Corridors of Protected Areas. The Great Green Macaw Project is thus one of the few parrot projects where the lead investigators were instrumental in major conservation policy changes within Latin America.