In Chile’s Patagonia National Park, Mongabay meets a women-led team preparing to release to the wild 13 Darwin’s rheas, a bird that nearly went extinct in the region just 20 years ago.
Mongabay follows the preparations for the reintroduction and witnesses how the women’s efforts are helping to protect the birds and rebuild a self-sustaining population of this flagship Patagonian species.
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