Posted on 10/19/2022 1:07:46 AM PDT by Libloather
It was a sunny morning when about 200 people trudged up a hill in southern Argentina's Patagonia region with a singular mission: free two Andean condors that had been born in captivity.
While members of the Mapuche, the largest Indigenous group in the area, played traditional instruments, and a group of children threw condor feathers into the air to symbolize their good wishes for the newly liberated birds, an eerie silence engulfed the mountain in Sierra Paileman in Rio Negro province as researchers opened the cages where the two specimens of the world’s largest flying bird were kept.
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The emotion in the air was palpable. People hugged while researchers sprang into action and started tracking the birds. It was a moment that so many had been working toward for months.
It was also bittersweet.
Preliminary plans for a massive wind farm that could be located in the Somuncura Plateau to feed a green hydrogen project is putting at risk a three-decade-long effort to repopulate Patagonia's Atlantic coast with a bird that is classified as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Conservationists fear the birds inevitably would collide with the rotating blades of the turbines and be killed. In neighboring Chile, an environmental impact study for a planned wind farm with 65 windmills concluded that as many as four of the rare condors could collide with the massive structures yearly. Environmental authorities rejected the project last year.
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Behold! I hold two Andean condors that had been born in captivity which we will free today. There goes the 1st..... whirring sound of wind mill...... MMMM, I hold one Andean condor that had been born in captivity which we will free today and I hope does not fly into a wind mill!
No doubt caused by emissions from the Mars Rover.
Depends if it was Man’s actions that caused their demise or, as in dinosaurs and mastodons, they’ve had their time and forget about them.
I must admit I’m a bit biased on this subject. Whenever I see a turtle or snake crossing the road I stop and help them head in the direction they are going. Didn’t use to brother me until I read an article on the decline of local species due to habitat loss and increasing roads in our area. I’m not the only one as used other driving smiling and waiting patiently as I help them along their way. Some critters,like snapping turtles and snakes aren’t as appreciating.
i am more worried about our eagles.
Not a total loss - tastes kind of like Eagle.
Deep State doesn’t give a rat’s patootie about human beings.
Why in God’s name would it care about condors?!
The solution is to install guards around the blades and hope that the birds do not simply fly into stationary object as well.
For the green fans no obstacle or fruit bowl is too expensive.
‘may pose risk’. lol. they are killing birds all over the world. FakeNewsMSM has gone along with it.
i liked a video of animal “saviors’ releasing a “saved” baby seal...with a tracker. Beep, beep beep stopped after two minutes. Wish they could have recorded the “gulp”.
giving up land for wind farms and solar is insane...as stupid as using corn for fuel.
It’s not insanity.
It’s evil.
Purposeful, unconscionable evil.
After reading the thread I was just thinking of that incident when along came a Killer Whale and “gulp!” Right in front of all the people.
There are no windfarms in the Grand Canyon where condors thrive
I want a T-Rex that can fetch a Frisbee.
yes...i saw it live....
The cost for “reproducing” eagles is $50,000 a head. Are we stupid or what. And windmills are even stupider.
No one ever asks...Tastes like chicken??
One morning I saw a pair of condors sleeping at their perches, on some bare branches high in a douglas fir at Mesa Verde. As the sun rose and warmed the air they roused and spread their wings to warm up. If you ever see one like this you will understand why the Indians revered them as “thunderbirds.” Magnificent creatures.
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