The ACTP team at Schöneiche in Germany together with the Brazilian Minister of Environment, the Hon. Edson Duarte, representatives from the German BFN, project partners Wildlife Reserves Singapore represented by their Zoological Director Dr Luis Carlos Neves DVM and the Pairi Daiza Foundation represented by their director Dr Tim Bouts, to celebrate the commencement of the planning for the next step in the Spix’s Macaw re-introduction project..