April 4, 2022
Yurok Tribe brings California condors back to Humboldt County after more than a century
Watch history unfold on a new condor cam.
The California condor is critically endangered and nearly went extinct in the 1980s. By 1982, researchers believed that only 23 condors remained in the wild, hidden in a small mountainous area in Southern California. Today, close to 500 condors live at release sites across North America.
Efforts to save the California condor started nearly two decades ago by the Yurok Tribe, the largest Native tribe in California, according to a Facebook post.
The tribe ...