Sunday, January 1, 2012

New Year's Vulture

On New Year's Day the first vulture of 2012 was flying in the news on tv. Unfortunately just because of a very sad reason :-(
A tourist caused a great fire in the Chilean Torres del Paine Nationalpark by burning used toilet papers. More than 12000 hectare of the wonderful forest got destroyed. Experts believe it will take the nature more than 50 years to recover from this horrible fire, a catastrophe for flora and fauna!
In this Nationalpark the majestic Andean Condor is living, the largest New World Vulture on earth with a wing span of 3,50 meters! Unfortunately it's population is badly endangered and maybe many Andean Condors died during in or because of the fire :-(
Hopefully they all found their way to a safer place, so that the New Year 2012 will not start with a sad vulture-catastrophe!

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