Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's enforcement agency. Its acronym is "IBAMA".
In 1990 IBAMA created the Permanent Committee for the Recovery of the Spix's Macaw, called CPRAA, and started the Ararinha Azul Project (Little Blue Macaw Project) for conserving one of the rarest birds in the world. Other participants included BirdLife International, Birds International, WWF-Brazil and the American Federation of Aviculture and most of the funding came from IBAMA and the Fundación Loro Parque (Loro Parque Foundation ) of Spain. However the last Spix's Macaw living in wilderness disappeared in 2000 and the species became extinct in wild [1].