{"id":14483,"date":"2018-09-09T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14483"},"modified":"2018-09-09T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:24:11","slug":"blue-bird-from-rio-movie-now-extinct-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14483","title":{"rendered":"Blue bird from &#8216;Rio&#8217; movie now extinct in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The Spix&#8217;s macaw achieved onscreen fame in Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Rio&#8221; as a charming parrot named Blu who travels thousands of miles in an attempt to save his species.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0006320718308012\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> released this week found that the Brazilian bird is now extinct in the wild.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Spix&#8217;s macaw is one of eight bird species, half of them in Brazil, confirmed extinct or suspected extinct in the report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/worldwide\/news\/spixs-macaw-heads-list-first-bird-extinctions-set-be-confirmed-decade\" target=\"_blank\">BirdLife International<\/a>. Deforestation is a leading cause of the Spix&#8217;s macaw&#8217;s  disappearance from its natural habitat, according to the report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The Spix&#8217;s macaw achieved onscreen fame in Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Rio&#8221; as a charming parrot named Blu who travels thousands of miles in an attempt to save his species.But a study released this week found that the Brazilian bird is now extinct in the wild.The Spix&#8217;s macaw is one of eight bird species, half of them in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}