Only a few hundred Timor green pigeons may remain. There is still time to save them

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.

On April 20, on the south coast of Timor-Leste, Jafet Potenzo Lopes saw three green pigeons.

He had not seen the species for years.

The birds were Timor green pigeons, and the site, in Manatuto municipality, had no […]