Fundación Ñankulafkén
ABOUT
Fundación Ñankulafkén is a small organization with a mission to conserve threatened and little-known raptors in Chile and other Latin American countries through scientific research, education, and outreach.
It is everyone’s job to ensure the protection of the natural world on which we depend, and to ensure that birds of prey continue to grace the skies with their majesty and beauty. – Tomás Rivas Fuenzalida
PROJECTS
- Studying the largest known breeding population of the Orange-breasted Falcon in South America
- Conserving two threatened raptors in South America through agroecology and other deterrent techniques
- Migration of the White-throated Hawk
CONTACTS
If you are interested in being involved or supporting their work please contact:
- Tomás Rivas Fuenzalida, President, Fundación Ñankulafkén
- email: trivasfuenzalida@gmail.com
- Instagram: @tomaspizaetus
SOCIAL MEDIA
- Facebook: Fundación Ñankulafkén
- Instagram: fundacion_nankulafken
SPECIES ACCOUNTS
Fundación Ñankulafkén partnered with BOW in 2022 with a commitment to generate full species account revisions of several South American raptors. Those published so far include:
| Common name | Scientific name | Authors |
| Black-and-chestnut Eagle | Spizaetus isidori | Tomás Rivas-Fuenzalida; Juan M. Grande; Sebastián Kohn; Felix Hernán Vargas; Santiago Zuluaga Castañeda; Peter Pyle; Andrew J. Spencer |
| Chilean Hawk | Accipiter chilensis | Tomás Rivas-Fuenzalida; Katherine Burgos-Andrade; Álvaro García; Santiago Castrilli; Vicente Rosales; Claudio Peña; Enrique Ziehlmann; Ricardo Figueroa; Peter Pyle; Peter F. D. Boesman |
| Rufous-tailed Hawk | Buteo ventralis | Tomás Rivas-Fuenzalida; Katherine Burgos-Andrade; Álvaro García; Santiago Castrilli; Vicente Rosales; Enrique Ziehlmann; Ricardo Figueroa; Peter Pyle |
| White-throated Hawk | Buteo albigula | Tomás Rivas-Fuenzalida; Santiago Castrilli; Jorge Toledo; Ricardo Figueroa; Peter Pyle |
Additional species accounts are under development.
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