Historically, the California condor soared across the western skies of North America. But by the 1980s, the bird was on the edge of extinction just 22 remained.Thanks to decades of conservation work, the California condor population has rebounded to a couple hundred birds in Central California and Arizona. And this May, a large partnership led by the Yurok Tribe re-introduced the birds to Northern California. Today, host Aaron Scott talks to Yurok biologist Tiana Williams-Claussen about the years-long quest to return the birds to their ancestral skies, and the importance of condor who the Yurok call Prey-go-neesh to the Yurok people and the natural world.
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