Eight Spix’s macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) bred in captivity were released into the wild in the municipality of Curuçá The release of the birds—three males and five females—was an important step in efforts to reintroduce the species to its original habitat The project was led by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) in partnership with Brazilian researchers and German nongovernmental organization the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP) the species was officially declared extinct from the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) nearly 20 years after the last male born in the wild disappeared from the skies of the Caatinga and 200 years after the bird was first captured by German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826) and described by his assistant The Spix’s macaw disappeared from its original habitat because of changes in the landscape and poaching The reintroduction project began in Germany a few years ago with the captive breeding of specimens purchased from collectors Another 12 macaws are set to be released by the end of the year © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved. Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb and the Doctor and Clara are on hand to try and save the day but that is not exactly how things pan out There are nods to classic fairytales and some very familiar London landmarks given a horticultural makeover in this story of love and protection Here are a few things to keep an eye out for (The episode is available on iTunes and Amazon.) Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the script, is a massive fan of the Doctor—\"I guess my childhood hero would have to be Doctor Who – Jon Pertwee's Doctor\"—As part of a promotional interview for his rebooted series of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang books by Ian Fleming saying: \"Doctor Who has a lot in common with Chitty like the time travel the Sixties… they're really based in the Sixties – whatever they've become there's something very Sixties about the idea of them both Writing Doctor Who has been very like writing Chitty You can throw any story at them and it'll make sense You can go to El Dorado or the future or to the Anglo-Saxons and it'll use it for fuel.\" 1908,\" a huge unexplained explosion in Siberia 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which flattened around 80 million trees in an area of around 800 square miles It appears to have been caused by a flying object—an asteroid or comet—entering Earth's atmosphere and exploding some miles above the surface That's the site of a similar event—commonly assumed to be the impact of a fragmented asteroid—that happened on 13 August There are lots of little nods and references in this story The girl who spots a red ring in the middle of a cross-section of an ancient tree is called Ruby Maebh is given a red hooded coat and chased by wolves to underline Clara's point about fairy-tales the forest setting for Shakespeare's As You Like It The tiger appears because of the William Blake poem \"The Tyger,\" that gave this story its title: \"Tyger burning bright / In the forests of the night\" there's an advert for Doctor Who on the side of the bus Clara Danny and the children spot as the emerge from their museum sleepover It's actually a cardboard cutout of a bus: [caption id=\"attachment_431212\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1600\"] (Photo: BBC)[/caption] with the Seventh Doctor adventure \"Remembrance of the Daleks\" showing a TV set on which a continuity annoucer is heard to say \"And now for a new science fiction adventure Possibly as a callback to his military past Danny has the kids from Coal Hill School singing the song \"Everywhere We Go,\" which has been used as a marching chant for decades children at camp and supporters of all manner of sporting teams The Doctor refers to the new forest as being \"like the New Forest except even newer.\" And he's really not kidding The actual New Forest—formerly called Ytene—is an area of woodland and heath that covers south-east Hampshire was given its name in 1079 by William the Conquerer which necessitated the removal of around 20 hamlets and farmsteads the New Forest was recorded (as \"Nova Foresta\") in Domesday Book and it is the only area of woodland recorded in full detail by the book In other new forestry news, there were plans in announced in January 2018 to plant an entirely new forest of around 50 million trees in northern England The idea that humankind will easily forget a cosmic event on this scale has been explored before the Doctor explains to Ace that humans prefer not to think about these things saying: \"Do you remember the Zygon gambit with the Loch Ness Monster Your species has an amazing capacity for self-deception...\" which—to non-London-based Whovians—are the pre-paid tickets people use to travel on the London Underground saying \"London has just been taken over by a gigantic forest Monty Don?\" Monty Don is a British TV presenter and gardening expert best known for presenting the horticultural BBC TV series Gardners World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqdGAsJ2kpQ NEXT: 10 Things You May Not Know About ‘Dark Water’ Now go back and read the entire 10 Things You May Not Know About Doctor Who archive (The episode is available on iTunes and Amazon.) Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the script, is a massive fan of the Doctor—"I guess my childhood hero would have to be Doctor Who – Jon Pertwee's Doctor"—As part of a promotional interview for his rebooted series of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang books by Ian Fleming saying: "Doctor Who has a lot in common with Chitty like the time travel You can go to El Dorado or the future or to the Anglo-Saxons and it'll use it for fuel." 1908," a huge unexplained explosion in Siberia The tiger appears because of the William Blake poem "The Tyger," that gave this story its title: "Tyger burning bright / In the forests of the night" [caption id="attachment_431212" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] (Photo: BBC)[/caption] with the Seventh Doctor adventure "Remembrance of the Daleks" showing a TV set on which a continuity annoucer is heard to say "And now for a new science fiction adventure Danny has the kids from Coal Hill School singing the song "Everywhere We Go," which has been used as a marching chant for decades The Doctor refers to the new forest as being "like the New Forest except even newer." And he's really not kidding the New Forest was recorded (as "Nova Foresta") in Domesday Book In other new forestry news, there were plans in announced in January 2018 to plant an entirely new forest of around 50 million trees in northern England saying: "Do you remember the Zygon gambit with the Loch Ness Monster Your species has an amazing capacity for self-deception..." saying "London has just been taken over by a gigantic forest Monty Don?" Monty Don is a British TV presenter and gardening expert NEXT: 10 Things You May Not Know About ‘Dark Water’ Now go back and read the entire 10 Things You May Not Know About Doctor Who archive Get to know Kung Fu Panda 4’s mysterious new thief in the latest clip Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway are setting their sites on dinosaurs for David Mitchell’s new movie Millie Bobby Brown goes dragon-chasing in a new trailer for Netflix’s Damsel a new look at Disney+’s afrofuturist animated series Iwájú Deadline reports Kiana Mediera (Fear Street) and Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) will star in Titan an “action-adventure horror-thriller” at Constantin Film and JB Pictures directed by Mike P McElroy and “set against the backdrop of Brazil’s Curuçá River,” the story concerns a “team of young doctors” as they “embark on a local humanitarian mission through the Amazon rainforest,” However “it soon becomes clear that not everyone – or everything – is happy to see them Their arrival draws the attention of an ancient predator The ensuing fight for survival blurs the roles of hunter THR additionally has word Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway will star in a “family adventure set in the 1980s” involving “dinosaurs” from director David Robert Mitchell and Bad Robot McGregor and Hathaway are said to play the parents According to Coming Soon a supernatural horror movie from director Damian McCarthy in which “a blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.” Gwilym Lee Deadline additionally reports Fathom Events has acquired the rights to Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps— a new film starring Tami Stronach (The Neverending Story) and her husband The story follows “a lonely goatherd (Steinbruner) who having been cursed at birth to never take a wife makes a pact with a reclusive witch (Stronach) to reverse the spell only if he can complete three impossible tasks so that he may one day find true love.” During a recent interview with THR Isabela Merced promised Alien: Romulus includes a scene “so disgusting” the ten people who caught a preview each “had to turn away.” Fede Álvarez gave me the iPad where he watches playback and there were ten people around me watching it on the iPad Not one person stayed looking at that iPad because it was so disgusting Po meets Zhen in a new clip from Kung Fu Panda 4 Millie Bobby Brown fights back after being sacrificed to a dragon in the latest trailer for Damsel Lea Seydoux undergoes a medical procedure to erase generational trauma from each of her past lives in the trailer for The Beast A shapeshifter attends a secret boarding school for others like himself in the first teaser for Woodwalkers In a new Instagram post Kyle Valdez revealed he’ll return for at least one episode of the fourth and final season of Superman & Lois First slide: Season 4 hasn’t officially kicked off until the first trailer selfie Second slide: another Kyle vs Erik shoe pic I had a chat with our wonderful costumes dept and they agreed to let me honor my Dad by wearing his signature black boots Kyle’s gonna have a bit more pep in his step and maybe a few more dance moves this season View this post on Instagram According to Coming Soon, Apple TV+ has officially renewed Invasion for a third season its new limited series set in a futuristic Nigeria ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " The read through for the episode took place on Friday Locations of the shoot included the National Museum in Cardiff the Heythorp Zoological Gardens in Chipping Norton as well several residential areas in Cardiff This is the first episode written by Frank Cottrell Boyce Best known as an award-winning author of children’s books he also wrote the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony He recently recalled that when he was asked to write for Doctor Who ‘Darkness-phobic’ isn’t a completely made up concept… The syndrome, when acute, is known as nyctophobia (from the Greek for night and phobos, meaning fear). In Silence in the Library ‘Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark The sonic screwdriver’s ineffectiveness against wood is long established and in Night Terrors ‘I’ve got to invent a setting for wood… It’s embarrassing!’ COBR…’ The acronym stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms and refers to a committee set up to coordinate the actions of bodies within the UK government’s powers in response to national regional and occasionally international crises When the Doctor mentions Tunguska he’s referring to the so-called ‘Tunguska event’ – a huge, mysterious blast that occurred 30 June, 1908, in the Siberian region of Russia. Many different theories exist as to the nature of the blast, ranging from an asteroid hitting Earth’s atmosphere to a black hole passing through our planet. You can read more about it in the BBC news page, Fire in the sky: Tunguska at 100 Here he’s referring to an event generally assumed to be fragments of an asteroid impacting on an area of Brazil on 13 August Due to the nature of the event it’s often called ‘the Brazilian Tunguska’ When the Doctor says, ‘I walk your Earth. I breathe your air,’ he’s echoing words spoken to him during Kill the Moon Character’s names are linked with the narrative in this episode the little girl who notices the red ring is called Ruby and Maebh the child who has the connection with the trees the setting for Shakespeare’s As You Like It When Clara asks how the ‘Forest of the Night’ will be explained, the Doctor replies, ‘You’ll all forget it ever happened.’ The idea of humanity not registering such epic events is well-established. For instance, in the 1988 adventure, Remembrance of the Daleks the Seventh Doctor says to Ace: ‘Do you remember the Zygon gambit with the Loch Ness Monster Your species has an amazing capacity for self-deception…’