Bruce Barcott: 'The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw'
Caring for orphaned animals at her zoo in the tropical country of Belize, Sharon Matola became one of Central America's greatest wildlife defenders when powerful outside forces conspired with the local government to build a dam that would flood the nesting ground of the only scarlet macaws in Belize. Barcott chronicles Matola's crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks.