Re-Stocking Macaws
The population of macaws
is growing scarcer; they
are badly threatened,
and their extinction
seems imminent. However,
those big colorful birds
are abundant in Rio
Segundo, Alajuela, not
far from Juan Santamaria
International Airport.
This is the outcome of
the efforts by the
Friends of Birds
Association, a
non-profit organization
dedicated to the
preservation and
protection of the two
species of macaws
present in Costa Rica,
the green and the
scarlet ones. U.S.
Richard and Margot
Frisius are the founders
of the program, which
has released 64 couples
of scarlet macaws in the
wild since 1999.
Green macaws have not
been reinserted yet, but
the Frisius expect
conditions to improve
for these birds to have
a good chance of
surviving in the wild,
just like the scarlet
ones are doing. |
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