Eleven rare blue macaws, known scientifically as Cyanopsitta spixii and commonly as ararinhas-azuis, have been infected with circovirus at a breeding center in Curaçá, Bahia, Brazil. The facility, operated by the Brazilian company BlueSky in partnership with the German Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP), is part of efforts to reintroduce this species, which has been considered extinct in the wild since 2000 due to habitat loss and illegal wildlife trade. The blue macaw population worldwide is estimated at around 200, all in captivity. The species has been considered extinct in the wild since 2000, when the last wild animal monitored by researchers disappeared. In 2020, 52 birds were repatriated from Europe to Brazil, and a group was released into a protected area…
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