The Macaw Project | Documentary

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A long-term scientific research project has been implemented in the Tambopata Research Center. Here in the Peruvian Amazon, biologists, veterinarians, and geneticists work tirelessly to study the enigmatic macaws in their natural habitat. The acquired knowledge helps them to maintain the species and protect this biodiversity hotspot from human intruders: the gold miners. However, scientific approach alone was not enough to protect the area. A clever, economic solution was needed, offering alternative incentives to local people to keep these forests standing: eco-tourism. The Macaw Project gives a glimpse to the everyday work of the researchers, while also explains cutting-edge techniques with novel findings in a comprehensible way. It reveals information about the tropical rainforest ecosystem based on hard scientific evidence. This scientific documentary presents a sustainable and internationally applicable model for biodiversity conservation, incorporating scientific research and eco-tourism with strong involvement of the local communities.

Co-produced with @FilmdzsungelStudio

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### Contents ###
0:00 Introduction
2:17 Beginning of eco-tourism
5:46 Macaw research: Genetics
8:54 Gold mining
12:49 Macaw research: Nests
15:50 Community-based eco-tourism
21:56 Macaw research: Telemetry
24:06 Conclusions & End credits

[cnzdenek]

Brilliant docco! Well done to the whole team, the researchers, and the community! Thank you for promoting wildlife 🙌.

[kiki]

This is one of my dreams or bucket list items to take some of the eco tours around South Amer. I would love to do the gorilla tours in the Congo also. Then I want to go on a whale watch.

[natureboy]

I love documentary like this. Thank you so much!!!

[lambisglx]

Conservation Biology in its best !!! Bravo Guys as we say here in Greece. Maybe some day i will visit you

[peggysmith]

This guy and no come on bro. Appreciate what you’re doing though keep up the good fight bro.

[sarahviszneki]

well me and my macaw are crying; I feel like crap to have her in a cage, but she was a rescue.

[timothythegreat]

heres a project ….everyone leave them alone!!! they are beyond us they are perfect !!!!

[nirvanamadpaul]

Do you want to help those already in captivity ?
We need clay lick...
Why not use the clay lick in branches with holes as toys for macaws.
Id have one branch every week or two ..

[JP-hboz]

This shows how destructive humans can be out of greed. People become so greedy to the extent of them destroying eveything in their paths. Remember that animals can live without us while humans cant.

[rainbowchickenlive]

i have two B&G macaws. both adopted, one is 27 and the other is 45-50. I love my chickens but i so wish they could live in the wild like their cousins.
Edit: i want to live here too

[FernandaRodriguez-dvsi]

Thanks for making such great work educating people and protecting these precious natural and vital resources

[edwardpincus]

Imagine the increasing damage to the rainforest now (15 Feb '22) that the value lf gold has exceeded $1, 800 per ounce.
The rainforest is of value quite beyond calculating and must be prized and saved forever.

[mcaroni]

Saludos desde Venezuela Guacamayas de Caracas patrimonio de la ciudad siempre libres para volar ❤
Volar en libertad 🎉
NO al tráfico ilegal de Aves exóticas tropicales en vía de extinción 😢

[mervyndaniel]

Sitting here and watching, the effort the conservationist trying to save the macaw is really impressive, nature is very fragile we must not take it for granted.