Status of the globally threatened forest birds of northeast Brazil Author Pereira, Glauco Alves Author Dantas, Sidnei de Melo Author Silveira, Luís Fábio Author Roda, Sônia Aline Author Albano, Ciro Author Sonntag, Frederico Acaz Author Leal, Sergio Author Periquito, Mauricio Cabral Author Malacco, Gustavo Bernardino Author Lees, Alexander Charles text Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 2014 São Paulo 54 14 177 194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.14 journal article 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.14 1807-0205 12641142 Pauxi mitu (Linnaeus, 1766) , Alagoas Curassow (IUCN and MMA: EW; Fig. 4 ) The last observations of this species from the wild were made in lowland forest fragments at Roteiro, Barra de São Miguel , Pilar, and Marechal Deodoro in the mid 1980s ( Teixeira, 1986 ; Silveira et al., 2004). There have been no subsequent sightings by ornithologists in the region and semi-structured interviews with local people living around suitable forest fragments failed to indicate any recent sightings (Silveira et al., 2004, GAP unpublished data). However, prior to this species’ extinction in the wild, a few individuals were captured and a captive breeding program was launched. This program is now composed of both hybrids (with Razor-billed Currasow Pauxi tuberosa ) and pure-bred individuals, and is currently run by two aviculturists in Minas Gerais , Brazil (see Silveira et al., 2004). This captive population, now numbering over 100 pure-bred individuals, is subject to genetic management (Francisco et al., in prep.) with a reintroduction program scheduled to start in 2015 in Alagoas .