In a few days, the zoo in Mendoza will release a crowned eagle into the wild after fourteen months of rehabilitation.Shampalwe, a female of the species, is one of less than a thousand crowned eagles alive, making her part of an extremely endangered species in South America.According to La Nacion,she had been captured in the countryside of Mendoza and was eventually handed over to the Mendozan zoo.It took patience and time to retrain Shampalwe to survive in the wild; experts made sure that she could fly with ease and hunt before they let her return to the eagle population.Now she will be released into the Reserva Natural de Biosfera de Ñacuñan, one of Mendoza’s beautiful nature reserves.

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After a massive oil spill off the coast of Montevideo, Uruguay, many penguins were rescued by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and treated.Yesterday, some of these penguins were released back to their home in Maldonado, Uruguay after being treated by veterinarians.According to Market Watch, The original spill was caused when two oil-tankers collided, causing 14,000 cubic meters of fuel oil to be poured into the ocean.This oil drifted towards Buenos Aires, endangering a large amount of South American wildlife.Seabirds are very vulnerable to oil—it destroyed their protective oils and causes them to have hypothermia when cold water penetrates their coats.Two Argentina organizations have been assisting IFAW: FMM (Fundación Mundo Marino) and FPN (Fundación Patagonia Natural).

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