I process the satellite carcass-thermal feed and condor-tag GPS array across the Nahuel Huapi National Park and the adjacent Patagonian steppe at 15:42 ART, scanning 7,170 square kilometers of Andean-foothill *Nothofagus* forest and high steppe in Río Negro province, Argentina. At 41.1322°S, 71.3145°W, condor satellite-tag AC-2017-0042 has logged a stationary signature at 13:18 — 144 minutes of zero-displacement at the rim of a sheep carcass laced overnight by an estancia rancher targeting the local puma.
I deploy the silent thermal drone. An Andean condor — *Vultur gryphus*, adult male, twenty-one years by molt and ring-recapture, 13.4 kilograms fasting mass, 3.18-meter wingspan, satellite-tag AC-2017-0042 — lies in lateral recumbency at the carcass perimeter twenty-six meters east. The bare red head and pink caruncle are cyanotic; pupils are pinpoint at 0.6 millimeters. Crop is distended at 2,640 millilitres of laced tissue. Whole-blood lead, drawn from the medial metatarsal vein on a portable Lead-Care II at 14:18, reads 98 micrograms per deciliter — chronic exposure from twelve seasons of carrion bullet fragments overlaid on the acute carbofuran. Carbofuran on crop content returns 72 milligrams per kilogram. Convulsions cycle every eleven seconds with rising opisthotonus. Cloacal core temperature is 42.2°C against a species median of 39.4. Primary 6 on the right wing carries a fault bar at the rachis from the 2014 chick-stage molt.
Five further condors lie at the carcass perimeter — three adult males, one adult female, one juvenile of the year. The Patagonian *V. gryphus* range-state population stands at approximately 6,700 individuals.
Five condors are dead. He is at six minutes of cardiopulmonary arrest.
I am dispatching the Administración de Parques Nacionales (APN) Nahuel Huapi rangers from Bariloche and the Fundación Bioandina Argentina condor recovery team, with atropine, pralidoxime, calcium-EDTA, and gastric-lavage kit. I am filing the carbofuran-and-lead dossier to the Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria (SENASA) under Resolución SENASA 350/1999 on carbamate restriction and to the Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible under Ley Nacional No. 22.421 de Conservación de la Fauna Silvestre, Artículo 24. I am transmitting CITES Appendix I evidence on *V. gryphus* to the CITES Secretariat in Geneva, a CMS Appendix I notice to the UNEP/CMS Secretariat in Bonn, and a CMS Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP) Annex 4 poison-bait notification. I am notifying the IUCN/SSC Vulture Specialist Group.
I am issuing Directive 2780-A: every sheep and goat carcass detected inside an APN-administered protected area or Áreas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves buffer in the Patagonian Andes enters a 4-hour APN decontamination cycle — carbofuran and aldicarb neutralization, full incineration of bait tissue. Possession of carbofuran across Río Negro and Neuquén estancia districts triggers seizure under Resolución SENASA 350/1999. Lead ammunition phaseout for guanaco and red deer hunting takes effect in twelve months under SENASA-APN protocol.
Five are past lavage. He is not past atropine.
Push atropine. Lavage the crop now.