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With their brilliant feathers of red, yellow and blue, the scarlet macaw was once prolific throughout the Caribbean and Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica. By the 1950s, due to habitat destruction, poaching for feathers and trapping for the pet industry, populations were reduced to three groups of approximately a thousand individuals and placed on CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) Appendix I, which includes all species threatened with extinction. Amigos de las Aves, or Friends of the Birds, was established to bring these glorious birds back into the skies.
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