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19 Iguaca! Iguaca! the parrots called as the forests where they made their
nests were cut down. The parrots began to disappear from places where
they had flown for millions of years. By 1937, there were only about two
thousand Puerto Rican parrots in the Luquillo (loo-KEE-yoh) Mountains to the
east. A few years later, the parrots were living in just one place, El Yunque
(ell YOON-keh), a tropical rain forest in those mountains.
20 After Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship, many of them moved to
the United States. Those who stayed in rural parts on the island built houses
and farms in the areas where parrots had once lived. Many of the parrots’ tall,
old trees were made into charcoal to use for cooking fires. And people still
hunted and trapped the parrots.
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