More than 750 Echo Parakeets (Psittacula eques) now live in the wild in Mauritius, leading to their reclassification from Endangered to Vulnerable in the 2019-3 IUCN Red List update.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by IUCN Red List assessment PDF, BirdLife International, and Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, all independently corroborating population figures and reclassification details. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- Species recoveries bring hope amidst the biodiversity crisis (seed:environment_and_wildlife)
- https://www.birdlife.org/news/2020/01/24/no-longer-endangered-the-echo-parakeets-100-year-recovery-plan/ (corroboration)
- https://www.mauritian-wildlife.org/news/2019-12-10/endangered-species-downlisting-of-the-echo-parakeet (corroboration)
- https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/154065622 (corroboration)