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Article: SAVAGE CAPITALISM.
- Article from:
- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Demand for exotic birds reptiles and monkey threatens their supply.
AS A BLUE FLASH APPEARS ACROSS THE EVENING sky, Antonio Marcal dos Santos comes running through his backyard yelling, "Here he comes."
Dos Santos is one of many peasants who watch over the blue Spix macaw (cyanopsitta spixii), the last of its species to survive in the wild. "It gives me great satisfaction each day to know that he is still alive," says the goatherd at his home near this small northeastern town in Bahia.
The Spix macaw, the world's rarest wild bird, is the most extreme example of the consequences of animal trafficking, a worldwide business that is second only to ...