translated from Spanish: They released an Andean condor in Mendoza

The specimen was released yesterday in the vicinity of the Cordón del Plata Provincial Park, an area in which the province is adhered to the National Conservation Program of this native species threatened with extinction in our country due to the illegal use of toxic baits, poaching, collisions with high voltage cables and the alteration of the environment. Last week, residents of the Puente del Inca area gave notice to park rangers of the protected natural area about the presence of a juvenile condor that could not fly in the surroundings of the Cemetery of the Andinistas.A technical team moved to the site and verified the presence of the specimen, which showed at that time a certain degree of decay and with the assistance of park rangers from the Aconcagua Provincial Park and personnel of the National Gendarmerie, from Punta de Vacas, the rescue and transfer to the city of Mendoza was carried out for its rehabilitation. The specimen was immediately received at the Cullunche Foundation Rescue Center and was provided with diagnostic veterinary medical attention, in addition a subcutaneous microchip was placed for control and monitoring, then the specimen recovered normal weight and could be returned in the last hours to its natural environment. In this context, on May 17, the third simultaneous census of the Andean Condor was carried out in the protected natural areas of Mendoza and yielded a total of 44 specimens registered in the autumn of 2021.While in the second census that was carried out in the summer of this year it yielded a total of 45 condors, and in the spring of 2020, when the first census was conducted, a total of 39 condors were reported. The activity covered eight protected areas, plus an area of interest for conservation, in the Atuel Canyon, and 36 people participated in 17 observation posts, of which ten were in condoreras, another six in flight areas and the last in a nest. This task is within the proposal of the (PCCA) and is carried out by the Directorate of Renewable Natural Resources together with the Argentine Bioandina Foundation within the framework of the Condor Sanctuaries Program for the Conservation of Nature, with the aim of identifying, preventing and mitigating threats that endanger the species.

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