Spix's macaw to be released into the wild

28 June 2018, Germany, Schoeneiche: A Spix Ara couple can be seen at the breeding station of the nature conservation organisation Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots e.V. (ACTP). Brazil's Environment Minister Duarte is to open the facility for the resettlement of the ACTP Spix Aras. The Spix-Ara (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a blue type of parrot, which is originally from Rio Sao Francisco (Bahia, Brazil) and has been extinct in the wild since the year 2000. Governments and private non-profit organisation have gotten together to help save this species from complete extinction. The first Spix-Aras are to be brought back to Brazil and released into the wild in 2019. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)