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Xavier Bartaburu

São Paulo

Editor at Mongabay

Brazilian journalist, Writer and Photographer at Freelance

Articles

  • 2 months ago | goodgoodgood.co | Xavier Bartaburu

    Habitat loss and the illegal pet trade drove the red-tailed amazon (Amazona brasiliensis), endemic to the southeastern Brazilian coast, to fewer than 5,000 individuals by the end of the 20th CenturyThanks to a project to install artificial nests on an island on the Paraná coast, the number of parrots almost doubled in 20 years, taking the bird from “endangered” to “near threatened” status, the only case of its kind in Brazil.

  • 2 months ago | news.mongabay.com | Xavier Bartaburu

    Habitat loss and the illegal pet trade drove the red-tailed amazon (Amazona brasiliensis), endemic to the southeastern Brazilian coast, to fewer than 5,000 individuals by the end of the 20th CenturyThanks to a project to install artificial nests on an island off the Paraná coast, the number of parrots almost doubled in 20 years, taking the bird from “endangered” to “near threatened” status, the only case of its kind in Brazil.

  • 2 months ago | brasil.mongabay.com | Xavier Bartaburu |Rhett Butler

    Acometido pela redução do habitat e pelo comércio ilegal, o papagaio-de-cara-roxa (Amazona brasiliensis), endêmico dos litorais de São Paulo e Paraná, chegou a menos de 5 mil indivíduos no final do século 20. Graças a um projeto de instalação de ninhos artificiais que envolveu a população de uma ilha no Paraná, o número de papagaios quase dobrou em 20 anos, levando a ave a sair do status de “ameaçada” para “quase ameaçada”, caso raro no Brasil.

  • Mar 26, 2025 | envirolink.org | Xavier Bartaburu

    In a part of the world where throughout history only the pure white of snow and ice could be seen, today green moss and grass are emerging. Fish and penguins have begun to migrate south in search of colder regions. Even rain, an unthinkable phenomenon until recent times, now falls on this part of the planet. These are just a few of the signs that temperatures are rising in parts of Antarctica, and quickly.

  • Mar 8, 2025 | southafricatoday.net | Xavier Bartaburu

    A recent study has confirmed that Amazon jaguars have developed a fascinating strategy to face seasonal river flooding: when the waters rise and flood the forests, these felines begin to live up in the trees. The finding, made in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil’s western Amazon, surprised researchers who initially thought the animals would migrate to dry lands in search of prey.

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