Bird Conservation in Fiji | Searching for the Kulawai

This film documents the quest of Fiji's first NGO - NatureFiji-MareqetiViti - to find a long-lost bird in the Pacific Island'sdense forests. The red-throated lorikeet, or Kulawai, is endemic to Fiji and hasn't been seen for almost thirty years!
If the Kulawai cannot be found by the team in the next few years, it will have to be declared extinct. But by utilising a combination of outreach in social media, public awareness in communities and beyond, and actual observatory fieldwork on the ground, the NatureFiji staff together with volunteers are determined to find this beautiful little parrot!
You can help them by becoming a member of Fiji's first local NGO NatureFiji-MareqetiViti and assisting them in raising funds for future expeditions. You can also spread the word to friends and family, visit their page and share this video.
www.naturefiji.org
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This is a film produced by Pacific Media House
www.pacificmediahouse.com

[@1angel_on_earth7]

They are beautiful n they are so bright bird / parrot

[@natasharatuva2636]

Vinaka to the team at Mareqeti Fiji!!

[@blakekoroi5422]

💙💙💙

[@SidhantMaharaj]

Thank you for the AMAZING work that you're doing. I wish more fijians realise the value of this. #MorePowerToYou and your team. I'm positive you'll find the Kulawai. Good luck! ❤🙏🏾

[@TomVierus]

Thanks you Sidanth! Appreciate your nice words! Fingers crossed the Kulawai is still flying somewhere in the dense cloud forests of Fiji, but I am quite positive that it is :)

[@radioviti5978]

Totoka dina na vakamacala. Vinaka Vakalevu vei kemudou na vukea tiko na kena dikevi na #Kulawai 👏👏👏 #IndigenousKnowlege #NativeFiji🇫🇯

[@turanatomeko]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video and got to know more of Fiji and its ecoconservation efforts, thank you for sharring.

[@TomVierus]

Happy to hear that :) and thanks for watching!

[@purplephase67]

Its nice to see you are still doing important conservation work Vili, do you remember the video I made of Fiji Birds? maybe you could use that too. Keep well my friend.

[@tuantanah9076]

Awesome video! Did the team end up finding the species?

[@TomVierus]

Thank you! As of today, not yet, but the search continues :)

[@tuantanah9076]

@@TomVierus That is unfortunate. Best of luck in finding it 🙏

[@1angel_on_earth7]

In the year 2015 n 2016 I spotted a group of kulawai in Fiji viti levu

[@TomVierus]

That would be pretty epic! Might well be the collared lory though which looks quite similar. Where do you think you have seen them on Viti Levu?

[@1angel_on_earth7]

@@TomVierus Lautoka in saweni village I saw them once n once in Nadi

[@1angel_on_earth7]

@@TomVierus but they were big n in a flock not flying alone but I think to many deforestation n all that had caused them to shift into mountains I don’t believe birds have been extinct in Fiji they are still somewhere in mountain ⛰️ areas

[@balejuroeng]

Goo job