dissabte, 20 de novembre del 2010

Great Green Macaw: An Endangered Animal

The great green macaw is one of the most endangered animals in the world. They have a lot of different names: "lapa verde, guacamayo ambiguo...". These birds are very beautiful, but difficult to see.

The great green macaw weighs 1'3kg and has got a lot of different colors but green and blue dominate. They live in wet lowland, on the mountains of south America, above 35 meters on the trees. They eat some fruits and different seeds. The seeds of the "almendro de montaña" are very important in their diet. The great green macaw is endangered because hunters are destroying their lives and sell them illegally. Sometimes, some people shoot them because they are considered a pest in agriculture.

I think that hunters shouldn0t continue killing more macaws and help them to save their lives and their habitat.