Due to a rapidly decreasing habitat, the red-faced parrot is now considered to be Endangered by BirdLife International and the IUCN, and is starting to go extinct.

[1] Studies conducted in southern Ecuador by Mark Jacobs and Jon Walker revealed that the red-faced parrot predominantly resides in the cloud forests of Selva Alegre.

[5] These cloud forests are facing ongoing destruction for grazing and agriculture, relieving the red-faced parrot species of a habitat.

This decrease in birth rate makes the species even more vulnerable to the devastating effects of the Selva Alegre habitat loss.

These include flowers and seeds, miconia fruits, viburnum berries, weinmannia shoots, and parts of ericaceous trees.