Brazil's blue macaws, golden lion tamarins back in traffickers' sights
Brazil’s blue macaws, golden lion tamarins back in traffickers’ sights Conservationists working with the hyacinth macaw and the golden lion tamarin say there’s been a worrying increase in trafficking of these two species that are emblematic of Brazil’s biodiversity. Trafficking nearly wiped out these species in the 1980s, but intensive conservation programs by the Instituto Arara Azul and the Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado have managed to claw back the populations of the hyacinth macaw and golden lion tamarin respectively. Macaw researcher Neiva Guedes says trafficking cases have inc...
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