By Alejandro Rigatuso, Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros·Reviewed by Alejandro Rigatuso
Alberto arrived at the Proyecto Ara sanctuary with the crates loaded: mangoes in every stage of ripeness — green, half-ripe, some already wearing that first blush of orange that only the June sun can give — and a generous basket of mamoncillo still clinging to its branches. It didn't take long for the feeding platforms to fill. Some twenty macaws — red, blue, yellow — descended onto the wooden perches suspended above the green hillsides, and for a while the sanctuary became the only thing it could be described as: a quiet fire of color.
The birds looked well. They ate at ease in their semi-freedom, as though this landscape of tropical vegetation and open sky were precisely the one they had always been owed. Behind them, barely visible, the aviary mesh and the Proyecto Ara sign stood as quiet reminders that all of this carries history and care within it. Alberto distributed the fruit, made sure everything was in order, and so the day drew gently to a close.
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Alejandro Rigatuso · Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros
Alejandro Rigatuso arrived at Fundación Loros after years as Vice President of Growth Marketing at Toptal, bringing with him an unconventional perspective: he knows an animal is well by its eyes, "bright, wide open." Lorenzo, the first parrot released, recaptured several times and always set free to fly again, marked him forever. At dusk, around five-thirty, you'll find him at the Mirador de las Ciénagas or wandering around Cerro El Peligro, envisioning observation towers and hundreds of native parrots soaring over a reserve that an entire community calls their own.
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