The Spix’s macaw, one of the world’s most threatened parrots, disappeared from the wild at the turn of the millennium due to the illegal pet trade and habitat degradation in its native Brazil. In 2022 ...

In the Ecuador wilderness (guides Nelson, at the helm, and Paa), Charles Bergman sought the roots of the illegal animal trade (a blue-headed parrot chick). Charles Bergman Two fire-red birds swooped ...

2005-01-02 04:00:00 PDT Los Remolinos, Venezuela-- The delta of the Orinoco River has always been home to the macaw, one of the parrots most prized by pet smugglers. The delta, 11,000 square miles, is ...

At the pet shops in Sadar Bazaar and New Railway Road, no one seems aware that the Wildlife Protection Act bans the capture and sale of all endangered species of Indian fauna. GURGAON: At the pet ...

The bride looks as if she wants to get on with it. Fussing and squawking, fresh from a transatlantic voyage, she clambers around a metal cage in a white-tiled quarantine room, ready to play her part ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Two macaws found in Central and South American now have federal Endangered Species Act protection in an attempt to curb poaching and illegal trade. The great green macaw and the ...

A century or more before the Spanish set foot in the Americas, birds of a multi-hued feather were bred together in what’s now a desolate part of northwestern Mexico. That, at least, is the implication ...

Caracas is home to hundreds of the brightly colored parrots, which have become collective mascots of the city. A blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara Ararauna) spreads its wings as it lands on a rooftop in the ...