In 1983 , only 22California condor — the largest nation bird in North America — were leave behind in the wild . The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spend long time capture and breeding the surviving scavenger dame to save them from extinction , slowly endeavor to re-introduce some into the natural state .
The workplace is paying off . About 200 condors currently exist in the wilderness , in Southern California and Arizona , but northern California will before long have its own condor population . Fifteen U.S. means and the Yurok tribe have collaborated on a2 - twelvemonth planto re-introduce them to the Redwood National and State Parks . They make the first of five public meeting about the course of study in northern California last week , according to theSan Francisco ChronicleandSFist .
The plan for how to restart northern California ’s wild condor population is n’t yet solidify , and the agency will still have to prepare an environmental impact report . And it ’s potential that not everyone will be psyched about the chick ' reintroduction . According to theChronicle :
The forthcoming public meetings will be a fortune for those opponent groups to bring their concerns forward .
The condor has mythic import to many Native American tribes in California , but it ’s aparticularly sacredanimal for the Yurok . The idea is to put out the birds on the federation of tribes ’s hereditary Edwin Herbert Land .
The birds historically cover territorial dominion not just in California , but along the Pacific Northwest , so the released condors might transmigrate to Oregon , where they have n’t been seen in the state of nature for a hundred . The Oregon Zoo ’s condor breeding programme has hatch 60 doll since it started in2003 . However , Californiahas bannedthelead ammunitionthat poisons condor that run through the remains of animals kill by hunters , while Oregon has not , making it risky to re-introduce them to the godforsaken there .
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