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Andean Condors On The News

10,000 Birds

The species is being re-introduced in Colombia and Ecuador where the condors are either locally extinct or persist in very low numbers. Campaigns to educate people regarding what condors actually do and how to prevent it have been underway.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

10,000 Birds

A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. Conservation efforts continue and now include education and awareness campaign among the local communities that own the land were the Guans still occur. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.