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In 2007, the first condor chick hatched in the wild (in Monterey County) in 100 years. [citation needed] At the end of 2007, the California Fish and Game Commission [10] voted to adopt regulations to restrict the use of lead bullets within the range of the California condor and to implement AB 821, legislation signed earlier that year.
The California condor conservation project may be one of the most expensive species conservation projects in United States history, [61] costing over $35 million, including $20 million in federal and state funding, since World War II. [62] As of 2007, the annual cost for the condor conservation program was around $2.0 million per year. [62]
The adult male frog measures about 18.5–20.6 mm in snout-vent length and one adult female frog measured 21.6 mm. The skin of the frog's dorsum and ventral areas is black in color.
Thanks to efforts such as the California Condor Recovery Program, the number of condors in the wild has risen from about 23 birds in the 1980s to more than 300 today. Of those condors, 93 are ...
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The conservation status of a group of organisms (for instance, a species) indicates whether the group still exists and how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing conservation status: not simply the number of individuals remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the ...
It was a sunny morning when about 200 people trudged up a hill in Argentina's southern Patagonia region with a singular mission: free two Andean condors that had been born in captivity. The ...
The California Condor is a North American vulture species with an intensive reintroduction and management program. Vulture restaurants are used commonly throughout the condor's range as a means of reducing the risk of food contamination for this at-risk species and to help monitor the location and status of released individuals.