Endangered Puerto Rican parrot species is returning from near-extinction

Sunday, June 26, 2011

EL YUNQUE NATIONAL FOREST, Puerto Rico -- Deep amid the dense greenery of a rainforest, down an unmarked road, behind a barbed wire fence in a low-slung compound monitored by security cameras, government scientists are nursing a special patient back to health.

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