Janet and Andy Breslin are very special volunteers and donors.

For the three years prior to the move to Coombs, Janet and Andy volunteered every Sunday at the Refuge for 12 hours each. They literally worked until they dropped, doing everything from cleaning the special needs cages to making and hanging toys. Janet made intricate castles out of banana boxes for the week's entertainment for the birds.

When the parrot refuge moved from the Lower Mainland to Vancouver Island, we had a very difficult time managing without them. Needless to say, these dedicated people found ways to ensure that they are always a part of the parrots' lives. They have visited on many long weekends, and worked hard from landing to take-off!

Andy, in his everyday capacity, designs and installs communication systems and video surveillance systems. In an overwhelming gesture, Andy and Janet kindly donated a video surveillance system and a public address system to the Refuge. This incredible gift makes communication across the Refuge possible. What Janet and Andy did for the refuge is no small miracle. It was always one of our biggest wishes to have a system just like this.

Again, thank you very much, Janet and Andy!

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! More stories coming soon!

Birds who are now partly sponsored, thank you!

Birds who are now fully sponsored, thank you!

"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.

"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)