The Last Flight of The Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird by Bruce Barcott. Random House, 336 pp. $25.95 When I visited the Belize Zoo in 2003, I had no idea of ...

There are only 350 scarlet macaws left in the wild in Belize. They face the threats of poaching and habitat loss. But let us introduce you to the passionate people determined to save these colorful ...

Sharon Matola, the “Zoo Lady” of Belize, is an unlikely environmental hero. A one-time Iowa housewife, she trained in jungle survival with the Air Force, rode freights to Florida to study animal ...

The world is starved for heroes, especially environmental heroes, in these increasingly gloomy times amid the gathering onrush of habitat destruction and global warming. Seattle writer Bruce Barcott ...

The Macal River Valley in Belize is home to three-toed tapirs, elusive jaguars, and a rare subspecies of scarlet macaw. But if Belize Electricity Ltd. gets its way, one of the richest riparian ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Travel the pathways of what was once the Mayan world, and you’ll see images of the scarlet macaw, appearing at bus stations and on advertisements ...

Scarlet Macaw diet was determined during the breeding season of February-June 1998. Macaws were primarily granivorous, exhibiting a narrow diet during the dry season, with low variety of food items in ...

Barcott (The Measure of a Mountain) relates the dramatic and heart-rending story of one woman’s struggle to save the scarlet macaw in the tiny country of Belize. Sharon Matola, an eccentric American ...

The Caribbean nation of Belize is the size of Massachusetts, has half the population of Portland, and is one of the most beautiful places imaginable, riven with wild rivers, dense with jungles and ...