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At the moment there are only 34,000 individual birds left on the globe. Therefore the Andean Flamingo is listed in the IUCN-Red-List of endangered species as “vulnerable”. Flamingos only reproduce in flocks of 50 or more individuals, which decreases the probability of smaller populations to start the reproduction phase. In addition, Andean Flamingos only lay a single egg per year. Sometimes they do not reproduce every year, which makes the survival of the species difficult. The birds become mature only at the age of six, which means that it takes some time until the birds can contribute to reproduction. CMS and Chile, Bolivia and Peru have already signed the MoU concerning the conservation of the population of Andean Flamingos in December 2008.