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Two California condors may be caring for the first wild egg in Northern California in over a century. Scientists are cautiously celebrating as the young parents take turns with incubation duties in a remote redwood tree.
A hiker's stunning encounter with two massive California condors at Zion National Park celebrates one of conservation's greatest success stories. These birds nearly vanished in the 1980s, but dedicated breeding programs brought them back from the brink.
Species once down to their last hundreds are now numbering in the hundreds of thousands thanks to conservation wins. From bald eagles to California condors, these comeback stories prove extinction doesn't have to be the end.