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Flying back from the brink of extinction
BBC Wildlife
|September 2022
One of the world's rarest parrots - the Spix's macaw - is now ready to start breeding
SPIX'S MACAW HAS BEEN RETURNED S to live freely in its native Brazil having been extinct in the wild thanks to a remarkable and pioneering international conservation effort.
Named after the German naturalist Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix who first collected a specimen in 1819, the South American parrot's plight began when its homeland in northeast Brazil was destroyed by overgrazing and clearing.
This story is from the September 2022 edition of BBC Wildlife.
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