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Article: Hunters No More.(hiring former macaw trappers to help protect the birds)(Brief Article)
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Making the Macaw Banditos An Offer They Can't Refuse
In Bolivia's Llanos de Moxos region, a former wildlife trapper named Pocho shows off the delicate snare he devised to nab blue-throated macaws for the illegal pet trade. He points out the seven notches on its stem, one for each macaw caught with this snare. Today, however, the birds are banded and released. Their numbers barely exceed 100 in the wild, and Pocho works as the only guide who can show tourists where they live. "I wouldn't ever catch them again," he says. "I used to catch them and sell them, and they would be taken away forever. Here in the wild, they can be `sold' over and over again."
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