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ACTP, which houses more than 170 Spix’s macaws in Tasdorf, near Berlin, built a facility just a few hundred meters from where Guth is standing and, in March 2020, flew 52 macaws to Brazil by private jet to take up residence there.

The 12 birds were moved to ACTP’s facilities in Brandenburg.

An Australian MP, Warren Entsch, says he warned his own government about its relationship with ACTP.

The messages are signed off with the postcode of the Brandenburg town of Schöneiche, where Guth and one of ACTP’s facilities are based.

But under the terms of ACTP’s Australian permits, the birds and their offspring could only be moved to recognised zoos.