Flight No. 200: the 200th condor raised in San Diego is now soaring over Yurok Country

When only 22 California condors were left on Earth in the early 1980s, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park began breeding them back from the edge. This month the park introduced its 200th Safari Park-hatched condor into native habitat — one of seven young birds now soaring over Yurok Country in Northern California, as part of the Northern California Condor Restoration Program run with the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks. It is the first time Safari Park condors have been released at this site, the newest of six recovery locations, where they join 26 condors already living wild. In total, 291 condors have hatched at the Safari Park, and today more than 600 California condors are thriving, more than half of them in native habitats.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: institutional program