An Andean Condor chick has hatched. This is the third chick their current breeding pair have produced and it will be released into the wild when it is older: Source: Fundación Temaikèn's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=389199158794707
Fundacion Temaiken and the IUCN species survival commission are now working together to achieve conservation goals within Argentina. IUCN Species Survival Commission and Fundación Temaikèn join forces to establish a Center for Species Survival in Latin America
Be interested to know what species are being targeted?! Andean condor, jaguar (?), tapir (?), pampas deer (?), marsh deer (?), the Andean cats ... vicuna and guanaco?
I would say that all of the species you mentioned except the Andean cat would probably be kept but I'm not 100 % sure.
You might know that I would underline both species on exhibit and not in the collection as focus species for the ex situ programs they run.
Well in terms of ex-situ the Andean cat would definitely not be part of this but in-situ definitely. The Andean cat alliance is largely based in Northern Argentina so I would imagine that it would be heavily involved in the programe if this felid was part of this IUCN / Temaiken initiative. I think the maned wolf will certainly be though.
I know about the project in Northern Argentina (Salta, Jujuy a.o.). I just view an ex situ program as an essential component, both the create husbandry experience and assist recovery efforts (viz small felid cooperative breeding programs elsewhere, a.o. Scottish/European wild cat).
I follow the Andean cat alliance and their news quite closely but I have no idea about the feasibility of establishing ex-situ insurance populations for the Andean cat. It is certainly a species that appears to have low population densities across its range (but apparently not quite as low as was previously thought) and would presumably be good to have ex-situ but I wonder whether attempts to breed these cats would ever work in captivity.
Recent births/hatchings at Bioparque Temaiken have included pudu, viscacha, Leopard Tortoises, Red-footed Tortoises, Ring-tailed Lemurs, Green-winged Macaws and Aylacostoma chloroticum snails which are extinct in the wild - reported on social media.
