Villagers hold an Andean condor by its wings before strapping it to a bull in a bullfight during a traditional festivity known as ‘Yawar Fiesta’ in the village of Coyllurqui in Cotabambas province, Apurimac, July 29th, 2008. A provincial government is pressing Peru’s Congress to protect the endangered Andean condor by passing a law that would outlaw a highland tradition that straps the giant vulture to the back of a raging bull, according to local media. The proposed bill aims to slow what communities, scientists and ecologists all describe as a worrisome drop in Peru’s population of the Andean condor, one of the world’s biggest flying birds. |
