We are thrilled to announce that a short documentary by Danny Mauro and Hayley Crooks called "A Home For Life" has been selected to screen at the Kingston Film Festival before the feature length films "Reel Injun" and "A Shine of Rainbows".

This short documentary features Wendy and the World Parrot Refuge!  Cogeco’s Danny Mauro (Sport Diver TV, Blue Realm, National Geographic) and local filmmaker Hayley Crooks (Only For You official selection of the Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2009) created the short documentary about the "fascinating world of neglected and abused exotic birds and the people that rescue and care for them".

You can see Danny filming his proposal to the Discovery HD channel for "A Home For Life" here:

The feature length films will both be playing March 6th at 12:25pm and 7:10pm respectively. If you are in Kingston, Ontario and able to attend the screenings, we'd love to hear about it!

The For the Love Of Parrots Refuge Society (FLOPRS) Annual General Meeting will be held at the World Parrot Refuge on March 14 at 11 am.

The World Parrot Refuge is very proud to present a unique opportunity that you won't want to miss. We are hosting a conference from May 21-23 in Parksville, BC, which will help to educate people about conservation and the illegal parrot trade. We have a number of amazing parrot experts joining us from Canada, the United States, Mexico and the United Kingdom who will be speaking as part of our goal to educate the public about what is being done to protect the parrots of the world.

Our current list of speakers is given below, complete with more information about each of their inspirational projects.

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Reserve your spot now, as there are only 200 seats available. We look forward to sharing this special event with you! Together, we can Make A Difference!

You have a choice of attending the entire event or individual days, as well as joining us for the Saturday Night Banquet and Auction. We accept Visa and Mastercard, or you can choose to use Paypal. Our online ordering pages are SSL secure.

Please click below to read more about the fascinating speakers who will be presenting at the conference, and for more information about the conference location and agenda. Hurry to secure your seat before they're all sold out!

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We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Valentine's Day Romantic Raffle, which was drawn today. The tickets were drawn by none other than Valentine, who was happy to lend his skills to his namesake's day.

The winners are:

1st prize: Cory Seebach
2nd prize: Anne Robson
3rd prize: Grace Evans

Congratulations to the winners, and our deep gratitude to everyone who purchased tickets, and to all the volunteers who worked tirelessly to sell tickets.

The following report comes from Grant Corriveau, who was instrumental in orchestrating the volunteers and making the raffle the success it was. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and we wish everyone to know our extreme gratitude for their efforts. Grant reports:

The top of the 'Thanks' list has to go to Doug Jones who organized the prizes, sold (by far) the most tickets, and helped tirelessly at the malls with chauffeuring parrots, talking to the public, explaining the WPR's mission, and selling more raffle tickets! He was aided and abetted by his wife, Val, who was the main parrot wrangler, coordinating which parrots were available and transporting them to the malls, along with the necessary support gear (food, water, towels, towels, and more towels to clean up, parrot snacks, etc...). Courtnay helped a lot at the various malls, and also with moving parrots - especially her buddy, Valentine. And of course Anne & Larry Neil contributed a lot of time and effort. Stephanie Martin and a friend (Jennifer?) helped all day one Saturday at Woodgrove. Also Miranda and Patrick helped out at Country Club Mall. Still others helped with local ticket sales and support (too numerous to mention, but nonetheless valued and held in great appreciation by us all).

The feathered friends who spent many hours interacting with and charming the crowds were mainly Sydney, Nikki, Lunar, Little Peaches, Kelley, and Spirit also helped out one day with Stephanie. And of course Valentine, who was the loudest of all and called folks in from the far ends of the malls to let them know he was there! So, of course he got to make the draw for the Valentine's Day raffle.

Wendy, of course, had to do the legal stuff with the B.C. Gaming Commission to obtain the raffle licence and arrange the insurance documents, etc, to allow us to be present at the malls. She still has some paperwork to fill in before it's all finished for her.

Our volunteer group did a great job of working together on a large project like this for the first time. I hope we will continue to see growth of this group in both numbers and team-work.

With ticket sales and some cash donations given during the campaign, we raised just over $8,000! There has also been an increase in visitors over the last few weekends apparently. Another positive spin-off!

A little ditty from lovely Lindi:

Date: March 3, 2010

Location: Supermarket in Toronto, Ontario www.supermarkettoronto.com.

The musical acts for the evening include:

Sara Kamin
Mandipaal Jandu
The FrameWork
Emma-Lee
The Donefors
Dylan Murray
Lindi Ortega

For more details, visit the Facebook Event page.

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Please click on the thumbnails below to learn how you can help some special birds have a home for life through our "Virtual Adoption" program!

Birds who are now partly sponsored, thank you!

Birds who are now fully sponsored, thank you!

"The World Parrot Refuge is a true sanctuary where parrots live out their lives in a loving, spacious and happy environment under the guidance of extraordinarily caring people. The many visitors destined to pass through the refuge will come to understand that parrots are not toys or trophies, but beings with needs and emotions as real as our own."

– Rosemary Low (author of more than 30 books on parrots)

"This is, in a word, a great place and these miraculous creatures deserve no less, but few places can deliver it this well. It is, indeed, 'world class'."

– Stewart Metz (author and Director of the Indonesian Parrot Project), after his visit at the Grand Opening of the Refuge on August 13, 2005.