Brazil: New species of owl named after murdered missionary

Sr Dorothy Stang

A new species of screech owl was recently discovered deep in the Amazon forest by a multinational team of researchers from Brazil, Finland and the United States. Dubbed the Xingu screech owl, the little creature was given a scientific name of Megascops stangiae in honour of martyred Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Dorothy Stang.

Sister Dorothy was assassinated in 2005 in Anapu in Pará, Brazil, while fighting for the Amazon forest and its people. Her congregation as well as the researchers who discovered the new species say naming the owl after the woman who dedicated most of her life to the people of the Amazon region is befitting.

To read more of this article from the Global Sisters Report, see: www.globalsistersreport.org/news/screech-owl-named-sr-dorothy-stang-tribute-symbolic-her-life

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