Since 1999, now US-based—wildlife conservation. Flowers & insects first: then science-backed nectar.
Hummingbirds Center Research Institute - Centro Colibri, Inc.
Nonprofit research institute 501(c)(3)
This page holds three documents from our archive — 2009, 2015 and 2019 — from a national ministry, a regional government and a public university.
These are a sample, not everything we hold.
On the other pages of this site: our university collaborations, the peer-reviewed publication, our laboratory analyses, and the photographs with ministers, ambassadors and rectors.
The Ministry of Environment of Colombia
Signed by the Ministry's Director of Ecosystems and addressed to the Italian Minister of the Environment, 30 March 2009, on the natural reserve and hummingbird breeding centre being established with our center, CORPOBOYACÁ and Universidad de Boyacá.
Copied to the Ambassador of Italy in Bogotá and to the Rector of Universidad de Boyacá.
Notarised in Bogotá, 3 April 2009.
The Governor of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy)
Published by the Region's press office on 31 March 2015, on the Region's own website:
the Governor's visit to our center, filmed by their cameras.
Universidad Central del Ecuador
Published by the University on its own repository: press bulletin No. 587, 18 November 2019, on the tripartite agreement signed with our center and on the hummingbird research center to be built at the University's experimental campus.
The Colombian University
The agreement with the University of Boyaca in with the envoy of the President of the Republic of Colombia, Hon. Ciro Montañez
Italy 1999, where it all began...
Prof. Karl Schuchmann (University of Bonn) who first decoded hummingbirds’ diet in 1978. He helped found our Center!
The Minister of the Environment
Back in 2004, the Italian Minister of the Environment Hon. Matteoli inaugurated the first experimental version of Hummcare Nectar
The University of Udine
Rector Prof. Compagno, Prof. Susmel, and the late Prof. De Ferra back in 2008 during the study of the first formulations of the nectar
A Tribute to Our Origins
Alitalia and Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia regional government dedicated this livery to our Center’s work, with the hummingbird as its emblem—a tribute to our research since 1999. A high-flying symbol of conservation that took off in Italy and has now landed in the United States.
Hummingbirds Center Research Institute - Centro Colibri, Inc.
Nonprofit research institute 501(c)(3)
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