Early March last year, an endangered California condor—one of less than 350 of its kind surviving in the wild—perched on an Arizona cliff face staring into space for days. It’s probably sick from lead ...

PHOENIX — Conservationists in Arizona are set to take a big step forward in their efforts to save the California condor, a critically endangered species. It might be more accurate to stay “a big ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Banking into the wind and then gliding out of sight, a male California condor flew back into the wild after a captive breeding program that helped save North America's largest ...

With its unofficial mandate to reduce government waste, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency slashed hundreds of federal programs; it also killed numerous conservation grants administered ...

A team of US-based researchers recently tested the safety and efficacy of a licensed avian influenza vaccine in protecting California condors, a critically endangered bird species, against the highly ...

An effort to bring one of the world's largest birds back from the brink of extinction is expanding after northern Arizona and southern Utah found some success in getting deer hunters to use ammunition ...

Winged visitors alien to the area have been casting their large shadows over Contra Costa and Stanislaus counties recently. Preservation group Save Mount Diablo said in a statement Monday they've ...

Conservationists Kristine and late-husband Doug Tompkins helped establish more than a dozen national parks in Chile and Argentine. But Tompkins wants to do more than preserve and protect the animals ...

Winged visitors alien to the area have been casting their large shadows over Contra Costa and Stanislaus counties recently. Preservation group Save Mount Diablo said in a statement Monday they’ve ...

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