Who gets a say in saving a species? The condor's comeback offers the world a lesson

In 1987, the last wild California condor was captured, and the great bird vanished from the skies. Today more than 300 fly free again after decades of breeding and release work. Writing as world delegates meet for the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan, USC scientists Shannon Gibson and David Ginsburg argue the condor's contested, costly, community-involving recovery holds lessons for every species decision that follows — who pays, and who gets a voice.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: institutional program