Seven young condors take to Yurok skies — the 200th release from a park that refused to let them vanish

In 1986, no California condors remained in the wild, and fewer than two dozen existed anywhere. This week the Northern California Condor Restoration Program released seven young condors into the wild in Yurok Country, near the Oregon border, where they join 26 already flying free. One of the seven is a milestone with wings: the 200th condor hatched at San Diego Zoo Safari Park to be released, from 291 hatched there since 1982. The programme is a partnership of the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks — four decades of patient breeding and release, turning a species' obituary into a flight log.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: institutional program