At the main office at the Blu Bird Sanctuary's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Blu's former owner, Linda and her ornithologist husband, Tulio scrutinize a high-resolution image of the Amazon Rainforest taken via orbital satellite which was displayed on an incredibly large TV screen to see if there were any intelligible changes in the landscape and noted changes in the population of the species living there. The office was spacious, but most of the space was occupied by cutting-edge monitoring technology, each system equipped with a computer screen, some showing live CCTV footage in enclosed aviaries for critically endangered species, others displaying various types of data – one screen showed the status of an expedition team dispatched to perform a survey on wildlife population, though strangely enough a few screens showed Linda's Facebook, Instagram and Twitter page (she absolutely refused to leave the screen off when she is in the office). Although a year has passed since the loggers were gone, they were still on edge and checked the live satellite imagery daily, leaving no pixel of the imagery untouched.
"I kind of miss Blu, even though it's only been two months since we were relocated to Headquarters." said Linda.
"I'm sure he's okay. He's not alone anymore. He - they have the Spix's Macaw Tribe to look after them and keep them company."
After a short moment of silence and more scanning, Tulio breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, looks like sector A-1 to D-4 are clear." Tulio summarized.
At that moment, Fernando, their adopted child, bursts through the door into the office after examining the birds in the aviaries.
"Hi! I just finished checking up on the birds in the aviaries. The enclosures for the Anodorhynchus glaucus macaws- Hey, what's that?" said Fernando, pointing to a sector of the screen.
Linda sighed. "Fernando, for the last time, no, you cannot play Match 3 Party on this computer."
Fernando gave her a questioning look. "Uh, not that. Look, on the screen."
Linda and Tulio turned to where he was pointing to.
"Oh, that? That's nothing. Just a dense spot of vegetation. What do you see?" asked Tulio.
"Something odd. There doesn't seem to be much wildlife in sector D-5 as the other sectors have. There doesn't seem to be as much blurred red dots – which would indicate Scarlet Macaws - on the screen as there were. Look." Fernando stepped toward the system's motion interface rig, highlighted the sector and ran an image analyser program.
A chart filled the screen with other information along the edges of the screen as the image analyser processed the information. Linda and Tulio kept an eye on the main chart while noting the program's progress. Fernando was right; there doesn't seem to be as much Scarlet Macaws, Blue-throated Macaws and other wildlife in the area as there once were. Something was disturbing the wildlife there. Although the affected area wasn't too close to the Spix's Macaw Tribe's nesting grounds, something about the lack of wildlife there bothered them.
"Good catch, Fernando! We'll see what we can find out. I think that the archives of Livraria Blu may have something about this. We'll do some research and see what else we can find out about this... occurrence." said Linda.
"Okay, let me know if you find anything!" said Fernando.
Linda and Tulio gave each other a concerned glance, and headed to Livraria Blu to do some research. Something told them that this mysterious occurrence might be the start of something big.