Xingu Indigenous Park film "Xingu" (2012). The idea of creating a park originated with a round table organized by the vice president of Brazil in 1952, at which a much larger park was proposed. However, the state of Mato Grosso began granting land within the proposed area to colonizing companies, so the park that came into existence by decree 50.455 of 14 April 1961 was only a quarter of the proposed size. Adjustments were made on 31 July 1961, 6 August 1968 and 13 July 1971. The final demarcation of the perimeter was made in 1978. The area was given the designation of
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests These include osprey ("Pandion haliaetus"), harpy eagle ("Harpia harpyja"), channel-billed toucan ("Ramphastos vitellinus"), little chachalaca ("Ortalis motmot"), nine tinamou species (Crypturellus and Tinamus genera), seven macaw species (Ara genus) including hyacinth macaw ("Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus"), many parakeets (Aratinga, Pyrrhura and Brotogeris genera), parrots (Amazona and Pionus genera) and hoatzin ("Opisthocomus hoazin"). Endangered birds include the green-thighed parrot ("Pionites leucogaster") and red-necked aracari ("Pteroglossus bitorquatus"). The World Wildlife Fund classes the ecoregion as "Vulnerable". The Tapajós-Xingu, Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia and Tocantins-Pindara moist forest ecoregions on the eastern edge of the Amazon basin have all been badly affected by human settlement and deforestation. Roads have