Feathers fly in dispute over Ambani zoo's pursuit of rare parrot

By Aditya Kalra, Arpan Chaturvedi and Ricardo Brito

NEW DELHI/BRASILIA (Reuters) -This is a story about a bird and a family. But this is no ordinary bird, and this is no ordinary family.

Spix’s macaw, a vivid-blue parrot with elaborate mating rituals, was declared extinct in the wild in 2019. A captive-breeding program has since seen some of the birds reintroduced to their native habitat in Brazil.

For more than two years, officials on three continents have been agitating over why 26 of the creatures ended up at a private zoo in India run by the philanthropic arm of a conglomerate controlled by Asia’s richest family, the Ambanis.

Indian investigators cleared the sanctuary of any wrongdoing this week. But European officials say they are keeping a close watch on any exports to Vantara, w