Overview

• Charrúa, a red macaw born in 2023 under the Iberá reintroduction program, died days after being struck by a slingshot projectile in Concepción del Yaguareté Corá.
• A local family found the bird gravely injured and alerted authorities, and specialists attempted treatment but could not save it.
• Rewilding Argentina reported the death publicly and described it as the first time in a decade that one of its macaws was killed by people.
• The red macaw has been a Provincial Natural Monument in Corrientes since 2021, a status that provides explicit legal protection against harm.
• A formal complaint was filed with judicial authorities following the attack, as the organization had recently tracked Charrúa’s wider movements alongside macaws Pampa and Toba.