The South is My Country movement includes three stars which represent Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. On 1 October 2016, Plebisul - an unofficial referendum - was held. Voters were asked if they wanted to secede from Brazil, forming a new country with the three states. A total of 616,917 votes (which represents less than 3% the number of registered voters in these states) were counted according to the organizers of the ballot, 95% voting "yes". They were hoping to reach up to a million votes throughout the three Brazilian states. Some academics claim that the movement bases its separatist claims in
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