World Sensation: Return of a Parrot Species Extinct in the Wild – Project Updates

Since the historic day in June 2022, when the first eight Spix’s Macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii), a parrot species that has been extinct in the wild for over 20 years, were released into the natural habitat of its Brazilian homeland, a fundamental milestone has now been achieved in this project – successful reproduction in the wild. The […]

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World Sensation: Return of a Parrot Species Extinct in the Wild – Project Updates

Six months after the successful release of the first group of Spix’s Macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii), which had been extinct in the wild for over 20 years, the soft release of twelve more parrots of this species began today. The team of the German Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots e.V. (ACTP) and the employees […]

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