Aims of the preservation breeding project

The aim of the breeding book is to care for the species and subspecies and blood-purity. The domestic populations shall be preserves or developed and the genetic variety shall be  strengthened.

A blood exchange with the neighbouring foreign countries is aspired to avoid intermarriage degeneration. 

The mutation breeding is not an aim of the preservation breeding project and should cease.  

Also a “conference about African parrots” is worthwhile to stimulate the exchange of views among the breeders or breeders and scientists and to spread innovations in the breeding of birds. The animal health aspect can and should be considered on these events.

For further information a round letter will appear 3-times a year.

The initiation of open land observations in cooperation of German and African colleges should be stimulated to gain new knowledge about habits and population dimensions. This knowledge can then be used for the further work and development of the preservation breeding project.

The offspring and changes must be transmitted regularly to the project managers or the data keeper to be able to maintain the statistics. 

Through the statements of holdings pairs of the same species and/or subspecies can be arranged between the breeders, which the new owner should see, however, only as a proposal. How he pairs his animals remains to him. The preservation breeding project gives no instructions like the birds should be held or paired, but makes proposals.

If an interbreeding is at hand the project managers will recommend the holders to make a new pair.

Furthermore it is considered to make a genetic data base in connection with the University, which one can use to pair the animals through molecular-genetic point of view and purely in species- or subspecies.