Back from the brink, but what next for Lear’s macaw?

By |2017-09-03T16:56:23+00:00September 3rd, 2017|21st Century conservation, Blog, Conservation finance, Extinction, People & nature|Comments Off on Back from the brink, but what next for Lear’s macaw?

In December 1978 the famous Brazilian ornithologist Helmut Sick made one of the ornithological discoveries of the 20th century. He located a breeding population of the fabulous Lear’s macaw   – a species that had been known in collections for 150 years but whose whereabouts in the wild was a mystery. Lear’s macaw is one