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May 2020
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The Time We Saved Rio

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On World Parrot Day, Brent talks to Francois La Grange, a scientist working with the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots, an organization working to reintroduce the spix macaw into the wild.  The spix macaw is currently extinct in the wild. 

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