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The Spix’s macaw, one of the world’s most threatened parrots, disappeared from the wild at the turn of the millennium due to the illegal pet trade and habitat degradation in its native Brazil.

In 2022, a reintroduction program finally released the first batch of 20 Spix’s macaws, bred from captive birds, back into the wild, achieving great results, including the first hatchings of wild chicks in decades.

By Bernardo Araujo
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/for-extinct-spixs-macaw-successful-comeback-is-overshadowed-by-uncertainty/

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