A New Cage Grows in the Wilderness

Somewhere between the canopy and the coordinates —10.4347, -75.2426, where Alejandro marked the spot from the field— Nicolás is setting up a new enclosure for the ARA program. There is a tree at that location, or so they believe, and for that reason the exact position needed to be confirmed before taking the work for granted. This is how the Fundación operates: first the map, then the hammer. The enclosure is designed to house around twenty macaw individuals —blue-and-yellow or scarlet, depending on what the assessment confirms: Ara ararauna or Ara macao—. Twenty parrots of the kind that fill the sky with noise and color, birds that need space to recover before they can fly free again. The installation is still underway, and the point on the map remains pending verification.