Photo by Nathan Rupert/Flickr/CGS
California Condor makes a comeback
The California Condor (Gypmngyps californianus ) length 47" (119 cm) and wingspan 108" (274 cm) was down to just 27 birds in the wild by the mid 1980s. According to Mathew L. Miller, editor of the Cool Green Society blog, the Condor Recovery Program, in 1987, removed the remaining condors and placed them in a captive breeding program; not a popular scheme with either anti-environmentalists or conservationists. The first condors were released back into the wild in 1992. In 2019 the 1,000th chick had hatched in the recovery program. More than 275 California Condors now live in the wild.
Photo by Adam Eliott/CGS
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Photo by Wendy Miller/Flickr/CGS
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