A recent press release from collaborators Green Diamond Resource Company and The Peregrine Fund announce that they, “… are collaborating to provide safer habitats for the critically endangered California Condor and other wildlife. The partners will first work together to expand the reach of the North American Non-lead Partnership (NANP) a partnership co-founded by The Peregrine Fund.
The California Condor, a resilient species that survived mass extinctions of the last Ice Age, was reduced to just 22 individuals by the 1980s. Decades of research suggests that lead poisoning may well have been a primary cause of their decline, but there is no doubt that lead is the primary impediment to recovery today. Working with the hunting community to address this issue is making a difference; now there are more than 500 condors in the world.”