The Spix슬롯사이트™s macaw achieved onscreen fame in Disney슬롯사이트™s movie 슬롯사이트˜Rio슬롯사이트� as a parrot named Blu who travels thousands of miles to save his species. But a recent study released this week found that the Brazilian bird is now extinct in the wild. Eight bird species, half of them in Brazil, confirmed extinct or suspected extinct in the report from BirdLife International and the Spix슬롯사이트™s macaw is one of them. According to the report, the leading cause of the macaw슬롯사이트™s disappearance from its natural habitat is deforestation.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Sudan, World's Last Male Northern White Rhino Dead: 7 Animals That Went Extinct in Last Two Decades Courtesy Us!

The species is now considered extinct in the wild, although some of the birds survive in breeding programs. For the first time, extinctions on the mainland are outpacing those on islands, the study says as reported in CNN. BirdLife슬롯사이트™s chief scientist and the paper슬롯사이트™s lead author, Stuart Butchart said, 슬롯사이트œNinety percent of bird extinctions in recent centuries have been of species on islands. However, our results confirm that there is a growing wave of extinctions sweeping across the continents, driven mainly by habitat loss and degradation from unsustainable agriculture and logging.슬롯사이트�슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Attractive Species Can go Extinct Faster Compared to Others, Says Research.

While three other bird species named in the study 슬롯사이트� the Cryptic Treehunter, the Alagoas Foliage-gleaner and the Poo-uli, formerly of Hawaii 슬롯사이트� have now succumbed to that fight, there is still hope for several bird species that the report reclassifies as Critically Endangered. In the 2011 movie, Blu was raised in captivity and travels from Minnesota to Brazil with his owner to repopulate his species with the last wild female of their kind, Jewel.

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