The longer, natural conditions can be said to worsen. Global warming, an increasingly uncertain climate, or deforestation, is a number of conditions that threaten the lives of all beings on earth, including humans, flora and fauna. Humans as beings who are given an excess of intelligence may be able to find solutions to overcome various possibilities in the future.
But the thing that we often miss our attention is the ability of animal adaptation which in fact is much worse than humans. They have no medicine if they accidentally swallow oil that pollutes the sea. They also have no other way than to run away if their habitat is disturbed by burning forests, even though in other places the ecosystem may be less supportive. It is this weakness that makes not a few endangered species of animals which eventually have to become extinct as well, one of them is the Spix 's Macaw bird.
For cartoon lovers, the animated film titled "Rio" which tells a pair of blue parrots is certainly no stranger. In the film, a bird named Spix's Macaw named Blu flies across the continent to meet Jewel, the only female in Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Saldanha's animation has a happy ending. Blu and Jewel can finally unite and produce offspring, making their species survive extinction.
But unfortunately, the end of the film is not as beautiful as it really is. In the real wild, Spix’s Macaw has just been declared extinct. Conservation group BirdLife International has analyzed the presence of the bird in the past 8 years. Lastly, they were seen in the wild more than 18 million years ago. This is outside of his single appearance in 2016.
Deforestation is said to be the main reason why Spix 's Macaw really disappeared. Yes, it is actually similar to the extinction of other types of fauna, they are in habitat loss, forests are converted into many other things; agricultural, plantation or urban areas. If they live in the sea, they lose their homes because the sea has been polluted. In addition, drastic climate change is also increasingly supporting the inability of many fauna species to adapt on earth. They are decreasing every year.
Spix’s Macaw, a bird that was once widely found in Brazilian forests, is not the only species that is declared extinct or rare due to deforestation. Other birds included in the extinction list are Macaw Glaucous, Brazilian blue parrot, and Po’ouli, a black-faced bird from Hawaii.
Researchers have observed 61 bird species that have not been seen for more than 10 years or are still visible in the last 10 years but the numbers have dropped dramatically. In addition, they also checked 819 records and 356 surveys of dozens of species and interviewed experts who had studied them for a long time. As a result, the birds above have indeed become extinct.
Although it has been declared extinct in the wild, this is not the end of the life of Spix 's Macaw. The problem is that there are still 60-80 Spix’s Macaws who still live in captivity. Hopefully scientists can find ways that birds can be bred in the wild. Or maybe in fact there is still Spix 's Macaw hiding in the jungles of Brazil? Nobody knows too.