• Conservation
The wild is not a great place to be for a lot of cockatoos. Poaching, deforestation, and climate change are all harming wild cockatoos. We must work with the people who share their countries with cockatoos to preserve a future where cockatoos can live life free from the danger of us.
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• An End to the Pet Trade
Most people would never purchase a monkey or a tiger as a "pet." For some reason though other wild animals such as cockatoos are often kept as "pets". The average household is not equipped to care for a wild animal such as cockatoo properly because of this the average cockatoo gets rehomed once every two years of its life. We must work together to end this cycle.
• Community
Although the name of this initiative is "Cockatoos Are Not Pets" we believe in celebrating those people who are caring for these beautiful birds in captivity. Even if the commercial breeding of these birds ended today we would still have thousands of birds that will need homes for decades. By empowering cockatoo guardians with as many resources as possible we can help make sure that the birds will have the best lives possible.
Our Work
It will take a village, well several villages, to help save the cockatoos. We have unique programs designed to help those villages.
Wildlife Protection
Cockatoos in Indonesia and Australia face similar and very different threats at the same time. By working with organizations that are on the ground in those countries we are helping protect wild cockatoos. We are raising funds to help rewild cockatoos that have been injuried or had been illegally stolen from the wild for the pet Trade.
Working Together To Save Cockatoos
About Us
The Cockatoos Are Not Pets campaign was born out of our original educational outreach program, The Cockatoo Encounter. The program was founded by Logan Jimenez and often visits schools, libraries, and Renaissance faires to teach folks about the extraordinary lives of cockatoos and why they do not make good pets.
We believe by helping the people who care for captive cockatoos and the people who share their backyards with wild cockatoos we can help save cockatoos from abuse, abandonment, and extinction.