THE "ARARINHA-AZUL" MAY RETURN TO ITS ORIGINAL HABITAT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYYqan5y0GM

In the link above a video (in Portuguese) shows how beautiful is the nature of Northeastern Brazil in the  "sertão" along the São Francisco river, with its original species of birds.

 The Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots, in Germany, maintains 7 little blue macaws; among them, from left, we see in the photo: Felicitas, Frieda, Paula and Paul.

 Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP), in  Qatar,
with 60 individuals 

Ninety-three individuals of Spix's macaw or little blue macaw are maintained in captivity (60 in Qatar, and others in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Brazil).

The small town of Curaça, in the State of Bahia, has woods of caatinga on the banks of the São Francisco River, where Spix's macaw can be re-introduced

[From the Wikipedia]:

Spix's Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii), also known as the Little Blue Macaw, is a Brazilian macaw and the only small blue macaw. It is a member of Arini tribe in the subfamily Arinae (Neotropical parrots), part of the family Psittacidae (the true parrots). It was first described by German naturalist Georg Marcgrave, when he was working in the State of Pernambuco,Brazil in 1638 and it is named for German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix, who collected a specimen in 1819 on the bank of the Rio São Francisco in northeast Bahia in Brazil.

The species inhabited riparian Caraibeira (Tabebuia aurea) woodland galleries in the drainage basin of the Rio São Francisco within the Caatinga dry forest climate of interior northeastern Brazil. It had a very restricted natural habitat due to its dependence on the tree for nesting, feeding and roosting. It fed primarily on seeds and nuts of Caraiba and various Euphorbiaceae (spurge) shrubs, the dominant vegetation of the Caatinga. Due to deforestation in its limited range and specialized habitat, the bird has been rare in the wild throughout the twentieth century. It has always been very rare in captivity, partly due to the remoteness of its natural range.

The IUCN regard the Spix's Macaw as critically endangered and possibly extinct in the wild. Its last known stronghold in the wild was in northeastern Bahia, Brazil and the last known wild bird was a male that vanished in 2000. The species is now maintained through a captive breeding program at several conservation organizations under the aegis of the Brazilian government. It is listed on CITES Appendix I, which makes trade illegal except for legitimate conservation, scientific or educational purposes.