The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw : One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

Describes the desperate efforts of a few determined villagers in Belize, led by Sharon Matola, a one-time circus performer who runs the Belize Zoo, to stop efforts to build a huge dam that would destroy one of Central America's great rivers and the last scarlet macaws in Belize, taking on the corrupt Belize government and big money corporations in the process. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.