I see several of them everyday here in Blythe, California. I remember the birth of Molloko....I cut the article out of the newspaper and had it many years, until a house fire in 1997.....I'm glad to see Molloko is still alive and well.
My uncle Dr. Michael Wallace (rest in peace) headed the development of the program back in the 80’s after studying the Andean Condors for years in the wild. He invented the “mother condor” puppet to hand feed the first chick born in captivity. I had the privilege of working at the Fillmore California ranch tracking the captive birds with telemetry along the pinnacles in the Sespe Mountain range.
Unfortunately there is a long way to go for them to have a self sustaining population but it's wonderful that there are so many now flying free. Lead is still killing so many birds. I travel often to a place in Arizona to see them and it's a very emotional experience every time.
There is still so far to go for a self-sustaining population but there is hope! #nomorelead. Seeing one of these incredible creatures flying free will always make me emotional.
Mexico has also another conserversation program in Tijuana are being released there. In a secluded, undisclosed area. I am glad to hear more efforts are being done in the US
We do need more of them. One of many environmental issues is carcasses being left to decay and become diseased. These giant vultures act as a natural form of waste removal
Sometimes I forget people like you actually exist. Imagine being against a vulture that strictly eats dead animals. Their existence doesn’t affect you in the slightest and never will. I just can’t fathom your miserable line of thinking, get help.
They almost went extinct due to human causes: poaching, habitat destruction, and lead poisoning due to lead bullet fragments in carcasses hunters left behind. Some hunters are trying to normalize using copper bullets instead of lead bullets to stop poisoning these animals. Or bury the carcasses if the hunter wants to continue using lead to avoid ingestion. Species do come and go naturally, but the condor decline has been strictly due to human negligence
@@heatherr2088 It’s just like If you keep trying to bring something back and he just won’t come back, maybe there’s a reason for not being here anymore like dinosaurs
@@leej2311 They aren’t dying off naturally, we’re literally killing them off, and the reasons aren’t naturally occurring, they’re manmade. The dinosaurs died due to a natural cataclysmic event, not human negligence. I urge you to research the ecological importance of scavengers such as the condor for our environment.
