California condors to return to northern Californian.
California condors are set to return to northern California after 100 years of being absent from there. There are plans to release the birds there in the future.
A release facility for these birds will be created by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, the Yurok Tribe and National Park Service. They have announced the creation of a release facility, so that the California condors can be released into the wild.
The birds are set to be released in two areas of northern California. These two areas will be the Yurok Ancestral Territory and the Redwood National Park.
What Is Their Conservation Status?
Californian condors are sadly critically endangered today.
What Is Their Population Today?
Today, there are only over 300 California condors left in the wild.
Where Are They Found?
As their name suggests, California condors are found in California. However, they are also found in a few other states in the USA. The other states that they are found in are Utah and Arizona. California condors were once found all throughout North America, but, today, it seems like they have disappeared from much of their historic range and are now only found in parts of California, Utah and Arizona.
Hope For The Future
The reintroduction of condors to Northern California will offer new hope for this species. The American Bald Eagle was in a similar position that the condors are in today. They were in that position decades ago, but, thankfully, the American Bald Eagle has made an amazing recovery: they now have a population of over 300,000 individual birds.
If we can successfully bring back American Bald Eagles from the brink of extinction, then, we can also bring back California condors from the brink of extinction.
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