| 27 Scarlet Macaws Released Into Wild as Part of Recovery Plan in Mexico Hispanically Speaking News | |
| go to original June 22, 2014 |
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Scientists and wildlife managers have released 27 scarlet macaws in the La Otra Opcion preserve in the Los Tuxtlas region of the Gulf state of Veracruz under a program to reintroduce the species to its original habits in Mexico, the Xcaret nature park said.
The birds were released last weekend in the preserve, “where the chances of survival are very favorable,” Xcaret wildlife manager Rodolfo Raigoza Figueras said.
The program to reintroduce the scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is going well just a year after the first birds were released in areas where they had gone extinct, the park said in a statement.
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