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According to the study, for the first time, the extinctions on the continent exceed those of the islands.
"In recent centuries, 90% of bird extinctions have been done on islands," said Stuart Butchart, Chief Scientist for BirdLife and senior author of the newspaper. "However, our results confirm that there is a growing wave of extinctions across the continents, driven mainly by habitat loss and degradation resulting from unsustainable agriculture and of logging ".
In the 2011 film, Blu was bred in captivity and traveled from Minnesota to Brazil with his owner to repopulate his species with the last wild female of the genus, Jewel. But the film was 11 years late, according to the study, because Jewel would probably be dead in 2000.
This does not mean that all hope is lost for birds like Blu. The report states that although the species is extinct in the wild, 60 to 80 macaws of Spix still live in captivity.
