Condors are the largest bird species in North America and a crucial part of the ecosystem, but during the 1980s, the California condor population declined to just 22 individuals. The raptors faced ...

The California condor is one of the world’s rarest bird species. Poaching, lead poisoning (from eating animals containing lead shot), and habitat destruction combined to bring about their extinction ...

resulting in California's historic Ridley-Tree Condor Preservation Act, as well as a settlement with California's wildlife agencies eliminating lead ammunition for depredation hunting (the hunting of ...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance recently welcomed its 250th California condor chick, marking a significant moment for a ...

In fact, lead poisoning is responsible for more than half of the California condor deaths between 1992 and 2022. As scavengers, condors benefit from peoples’ hunting activities by feeding on the parts ...

“This is a historic moment for the California Condor Recovery Program and the Los Angeles Zoo’s animal care team,” Rose Legato, curator of birds at the L.A. Zoo, says in the statement.

The critically endangered California condor remains a highly publicized symbol of wildlife conservation. From a global population of just 27 captive adults in 1987, ex situ breeding produced a ...

VERMILLION CLIFFS NAT'L MONUMENT -- By all accounts, Milagra the "miracle" California condor shouldn't be alive today. But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of three of the giant endangered ...

Incidents also are on the rise against academic investigators—most notably in late February when a group of masked animal rights activists harassed a University of California breast cancer ...

Condor #1061 had already beaten the stiff odds. Long one of the world’s most endangered species, there are fewer than 400 California condors in the wild of North America. And when avian flu hit ...

The Halloween decorations popping up on store shelves often depict cartoon vultures perched atop haunted houses, the foggy castles shrouded in mist and gloom. Fanciful though these seasonal ...