martes, 15 de octubre de 2013

Article from the Guardian

Picture from: http://www.conservacionybiodiversidad.cl/2013/08/liberan-exitosamente-a-18-condores-rescatados-en-los-andes/



Fist of all, I went to http://santiagotimes.cl/ and I founded this article http://santiagotimes.cl/pesticide-poisoning-confirmed-as-cause-of-death-for-chilean-condors/, called "Pesticide poisoning confirmed as cause of death for Chilean condors". The Article was written on Monday from September twenty-third of 2013. Everything started when tourists saw dozens of condors crash-landing in the foothills of The Andes, on August. They started a rescue operation and they could recovery 22 of the condors, two of them dead. So, the SAG started and investigation, and after weeks of testing, they determined that the cause of death was that they died because of eating animal carcass that had been poisoned with the pesticide diplenylamine. According to Luis Mayol, the agriculture minister, "in Chile there are a large number of wild dogs wich live in packs in rural areas and wreak havoc among livestock", So the farmers put pesticide in animals carcasses. The thing is that us the Condor is an scavenger, they suffer the consequences. Eric Savard is a veterinarian saw how the rest of the group of condors get better, and he says that was common that the farmers puts poison meat during June, July and August, because in this moment winter drives pumas and poxes down from the mountain and they're poisoned :(
Of the 20 surviving condors, 19 were released. And the local government of Los Andes is now awaiting the confirmation from the PDI that the Condors were not poisoned intentionally.
I think that the study of these cases, could be important to our career because is possible to see the relationship between Humans and native animals, and how the state mediate in this situation. I believe that is an interesting study area the development of  the relationship between human and animal through time.

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