Orange Bellied Parrot (historien om et design til fordel for en af de mest truede dyr)

Det har være et kæmpe privilegie at få lov at designe til fordel for denne lille fyr. I dette blogindlæg vil jeg dele en tekst om min fugl, skrevet af min kære veninde Polly Cevallos.

Dette blogindlæg, er en blanding af dansk og engelsk, det er det fordi opskriften der er lavet med fokus på den lille orange mavede parakit er på engelsk. Opskriften er en del af en samling i bogen Rascue Endangered by design.

Den engelske tekst er skrevet af Polly Cevallos, Polly er min kære ven og en af de 3 hovedkvinder bag initiativet til bogen.

Et kort Resume på dansk af Pollys brev

Den 9 maj er det international fugle migrations dag, og på denne dag har vi et særligt fokus på at skabe et fortsat grundlag for at fuglene kan blive ved med at migrere og dermed opretholde deres bestanddel. 

Nogle fugle rejser rigtig langt, og lige som havet, binder disse fugle os sammen på tvers af kontinenterne. 

I vores bog RED, har vi fokus på den lille orange mavede parakit, der bare er én af to papegøjer der migrere. Vores lille parakit, er virkelig truet, både hjemme og under migrationen. Den lille fyr har hjemme i Australien. 

Mine 2 designs, en tunika med gobelinstrikket lomme til børn, og en croped hoodie til voksne. Se bogens modeller her  (Når du køber den engelske bog, er det muligt at købe en dansk oversættelse til). 

Læs vores håb for fremtiden her

Thank You Polly for this 🙋🏻‍♀️

On Saturday, 9 May 2020, people around the world will celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) – is an annual global campaign dedicated to raising awareness of migratory birds and the need for international protection and cooperation to conserve them and their habitats. The survival of these travelling birds is closely tied to the availability of well-connected habitat networks along their migratory routes. This year the theme of World Migratory Bird Day is “Birds Connect Our World” and was chosen to highlight the importance of conserving and restoring the ecological connectivity and integrity of ecosystems that support the natural cycles that are essential for the survival and well-being of migratory birds.

Like our oceans, these birds connect us to different parts of the world. The Arctic tern has the longest -distance migration of any bird.

Moving from their Arctic breeding grounds to its Antarctic non-breeding areas, estimated to be a distance of 90,000 kms from pole to pole each year. ( the bird at the top of this years logo below) Or the Bar-headed Goose that fly's from their breeding areas in Mongolia to their wintering sites in India, flying over the Himalayas reaching altitudes of up to 7,000 metres

In our book called RED, we chose to highlight the Orange-bellied parrot, and it is one of only 2 parrots that migrates, both in Australia.

Most parrots are sedentary - this means that they reside/live in an established range throughout the year.

However there are two parrot species that do migrate, the swift parrot and our orange-bellied parrot.

This parrot is critically endangered, with the biggest threats to these colourful grass parrots, being that their homes are so fragmented, degraded and that there is an increasing amount of competition from other wildlife for its breeding and feeding areas.


Our parrot has its own Facebook page - Save the Orange bellied parrot