The Blue That Will Fly Again: The Promise of the Spix’s Macaw Return to Brazilian Skies
The Spix’s Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii), an endemic species of the Caatinga biome in the state of Bahia and the sole representative of its genus, has become a symbol of biodiversity conservation efforts in Brazil after being declared extinct in the wild in 2002 (ICMBio, 2026). Its geographic distribution remained uncertain until 1986, when the last known specimens were located in the municipality of Curaçá, Bahia. Following the disappearance of the final free-ranging individual in 2000, a broad...