🦜 Saving the Atlantic Forest

CONSERVATION

Saving the Atlantic Forest, one parrot at a time

The Red-tailed Amazon is perhaps not among the best-named animal species in Brazil. A noisy medium-sized green parrot with purple cheeks, the red band on the bird’s tail is only rarely visible — and there’s no record of the species being found anywhere near the Amazon.

In fact, the Red-tailed Amazon is emblematic of another of Brazil’s natural biomes: the Atlantic Forest, the once-vast ecosystem that covered the country’s eastern coastline from top to bottom, and which extends inland as far as Paraguay and the Argentine province of Misiones.

The species is not only emblematic of the Atlantic Forest’s biodiversity: it also tells the story of the biome’s degradation and fragmentation. But recent conservation efforts have provided hope for the once-endangered parrot and other endemic species on Brazil’s coast.

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