2024-10-29 18:47:00
Starting this week, Neuquen officially joins the Argentinian province responsible for monitoring one of the most revered species: the Andean condor. The census was conducted across provinces and in Mendoza and involved the logistics of a hundred participants.
On Monday the 28th, with volunteers spread across 18 observation stations, the first condor census in the Neuquén region became a reality, if you think about the historic step it represents, and if we add that they even made it Becoming a reality, that’s a double win as budget cuts for different conservation organizations come to light.
He was satisfied and looking forward to the results and spoke with RÍO NEGRO Luis Jácome, President of the Bioandina Foundation and Director of the National Andean Condor Conservation Program. “This activates the thermometer,” he explains, an operation that can “build a hierarchy” of the bird’s dynamics in its environment and know when to be concerned about its absence or changes in behavior.
After training in August and September, each census taker travels to a designated location for an appointment, and in some cases they have to arrive a day early and stay overnight due to the long distance to the location from the nearest route.
Everyone is in their place, starting first thing on Monday and working from 6:30am to 1:30pm, counting every half hour for five minutes. “Black-headed Jute, Moravian Eagle or Andean Condor? Male or female? Juvenile Condor, Pre-adult Condor or Adult Condor? There are many great experiences of discovery in this beautiful place that will stay with you forever “In my memory,” said one of the participants, “Pachi” Girini, after completing his contribution to the “Tranquera del Filo” in Quilca, near Aluminé.
“While counting and counting, we chatted about the landscape and territory for half an hour, joked and shared company with our wildlife conservation colleagues and provincial park rangers. Throughout the day we were able to observe The vulture’s journey, until the time it sleeps, until the time it rests, and the time it goes out in search of food,” Guirini concluded.
From now on, this process will be repeated every three months following the seasonal cycle to fully understand the behavior at each time of year. All data collected is loaded into a specially developed mobile device application that works even without a data signal. The most difficult task is to evaluate this information and compare it with expectations for this time of year. Based on the results, reports will be prepared for both provinces as well as locations found to need enhanced protection of this threatened species.
As is the case for the first time in Neuquén, Mendoza has reached 16th place in this new instance over the past four years, while Jujuy has reached 16th place twice. The proposal is coordinated by the National Park Service, Neuquén Natural Reserve, Andean Condor Conservation Program, Buenos Aires Ecological Park, Guardafaunas del Neuquén and CEAN (Centre for Applied Ecology of Neuquén), together with Bioandina.
Although the public policy context at the national level is uncertain, Jacom stressed that the planned program could be implemented as far away as Chubut and Catamarca and incorporated into the censuses of Neuquén and Mendoza . Convinced of the relevance of their tasks, they do not hesitate to “find a way to solve the problem to move forward.” “We will do the same,” he reiterated the pledge.
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