In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

The effects of acute mortality due to lead poisoning of wildlife should not be dismissed either. The largest impediment to the recovery of the California condor in the wild is arguably death by lead ...

Last year was an exceptional milestone for the Central California condor flock, as nine wild chicks fledged from their ...

Poisoning by ingestion of lead shot — scavenged along with carcasses left behind by hunters — is one of the most widespread and preventable causes of condor deaths. The Center's Get the Lead Out ...

Scientific studies provide overwhelming evidence that lead poisoning in condors comes from ammunition fragments in carcasses and gut piles hunters leave behind in the condor range. Since 1992, at ...

On Nov. 6, six captive-raised juvenile California condors will be released ... according to VWS senior wildlife biologist Joe Burnett, is “lead poisoning from ingestion of spent lead ammunition.” ...

but it had all the displays of lead poisoning ... endangered California condors. The program, which began in 2011, has had some success. However, last year's death of a famed condor showed ...