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Dorothee
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| 07:16 AM Feb 11 2018

Dorothee

Germany

Re-upload:”...Anyway I only upload photos and comments concerning critically endangered animals, which means that I just deleted every comment under this photo that deals with kakapos.
The Californian condor still is critically endangered and thanks to breeding programs and organisations that try to preserve them in the wild, they may recover – if we help them.
Please learn how to help the condor by visiting the websites “http://www.ventanaws.org/species_condors/adopt_a_condor.htm” and “www.worldwildlifefund.org”.”

| 07:15 AM Feb 11 2018

Dorothee

Germany

Hello Joe,
well I recall once having read a newspaper article confirming everything you posted here. Nevertheless some people may still worry about the survival of these birds as long as their official status is “critically endangered”. Also there are still old-fashioned farmers who believe in these fairytales about Californian condors killing sheep, goats and even calves. Thus they try to kill these birds by shooting or poisoning them – even though they probably know that this is illegal.
I’m not saying that Californians are especially cruel towards predators. Europe is just the same. Here we often hear reports about unknown people illegally shooting hawks, lynxes or wolves, too. This week for example “Tierschutz Euskirchen” reported about an injured (shot) Eurasian sea-eagle. They presume that the person who tried to kill this animal probably was a fisherman who believed the non-scientific information that these eagles require so much fish that there is not enough for both man and eagle.

| 07:43 AM Nov 25 2017

WobblyJoe

United States

Yes, you are right. They are still rare, but there is now a viable population. When I was a kid there were 4-5 left in the wild and about 40-50 in zoos. They finally just captured all of them so there were none in the wild and all were in the breeding program. There are now enough for a recovery over time, they number nearly 500 animals, wild or in captivity.
Still rare, but 10x as many as there were 45 years ago. Not enough to ensure survivability, but enough to ensure a viable gene pool.
That’s a huge step, about as close as humans have come to making a species extinct and then stepping back from the brink of disaster.

| 10:39 AM Nov 24 2017

Dorothee

Germany

Hey Joe,
well, I have never seen a wild one either. Probably because they don’t live in Europe and I never had the money to get out of Europe, lol!
I know they used to be near extinct decades ago and are doing much better now, but still there are not enough mature condors to ensure their survival. At least that’s what I heard.

| 09:48 PM Nov 18 2017

WobblyJoe

United States

for the record, I’ve never seen a wild one either. Only in zoos.

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