Is a Modern-Day Noah’s Ark in India Illegal?
Scion of billionaire reaps criticism for private collection of allegedly contraband wildlife
By: Gregory McCann
The vanishingly rare Spix’s Macaw, a type of parrot native to the Brazilian Amazon, was declared extinct in the wild in 2019, but a captive breeding program managed to turn the dire situation around, hatching hundreds in an enclosure, which eventually allowed Brazil to begin releasing …
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