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Cormorants (Guanay cormorant) rest on a rock at the Damas Island in Punta Choros, Coquimbo region, Chile on May 30, 2023. On the white sands of Isla Damas, in northern Chile, where tourists used to enjoy observing its rich fauna, today only sanitary brigades dressed in biosafety suits are seen searching for dead animals. Fear of bird flu forced the closure of the Humboldt Penguin National Reserve, in the Coquimbo region, where Damas Island is located and which is home to 56% of the reproductive pairs of this endemic species from Chile and Peru. (Photo by Martin Bernetti/AFP Photo)
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