Yurok Tribe will create a captive breeding facility in Redwood national park for birds that could be released as early as this fall
After a century of absence, the endangered California condor is set to return to the skies of the Pacific north-west.
The condor once soared from British Columbia to Mexico, but habitat loss, overhunting and, most significantly, poisoning from hunting ammunition drove the birds to near extinction.
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