Southwest wildlife: El condor pasa. California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), USA
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Southwest wildlife: El condor pasa. California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA . Critically endangered (IUCN, 2013). The California condor went extinct in the wild in 1987 when all 22 remaining wild individuals were captured for a captive breeding program. Since 1991 the species has been reintroduced in northern Arizona and southern Utah, central and southern California, and northern Baja California. Despite a successful captive breeding and reintroduction program the California condor is still critically endangered with only about 400 individuals alive, including just over 200 in the wild.
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El condor pasa. California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA . Critically endangered (IUCN, 2013).