Hurricane Hugo had a big impact on the parrot's status. Describe how the population has changed and why.

This question is unfortunately incomplete. The question relates to the Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata). It is estimated that during the time of Christopher Columbus, the parrot population (all species) on the island could have been as much as 1 million. Due to pressures from a growing human population on the island since then, the wild population became restricted to a small pocket of forest: the Caribbean National Forest. By the beginning of the 1900s, only the Puerto Rican parrot was not extinct. By 1968, the Puerto Rican parrot population stood at less than 30 individuals. Through considerable co-ordinated conservation efforts, the wild population was increased to around 50 individuals towards the end of the 1980s.

Hurricane Hugo swept across the island in September 1989, effectively eliminating half of the population of remaining parrots. By 1994, the wild population had again risen to 39 birds, and the population appears to have stabalized at that level.