Being an environmentalist is extremely risky business.

Deforestation in the Amazon, in favor of grazing lands and agriculture, has been a threat to humans and wildlife in the region over the past decade.

Studies show that in the last ten years, close to a million acres of Amazonian rainforest have been converted to agricultural land.

Before the International Bird Fair in Cali, Colombia on the February 16, zoologist Carlos Mario Wagner tells us the story behind the event.