US EditionLA Zoo Welcomes 10 Condor Chicks, Increasing California Condor Wild Population
- The Los Angeles Zoo announced on Wednesday that ten healthy California condor chicks hatched this 2025 breeding season at the zoo in Los Angeles.
- This follows decades of efforts including capturing all remaining wild condors in the mid-1980s and initiating a captive breeding program in 1981 to prevent extinction.
- The zoo pioneered a double brooding technique in 2017 that uses a surrogate pair to simultaneously rear two chicks, with four of this year’s chicks raised this way.
- Denise M. Verret, CEO, stated that the team caring for California condors is achieving significant progress in conservation, and these new chicks will contribute to genetic diversity and may be selected for future release into the wild.
- The successful hatchings represent significant progress for the California Condor Recovery Program, managed by federal wildlife authorities, and support the overarching goal of establishing a self-sustaining population of condors in the wild.
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World NewsOnce there were only 22 condors left on Earth; the L.A. Zoo just hatched 10 chicks
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LA Zoo welcomes 10 condor chicks, increasing California condor wild population | News Channel 3-12
By Julie Sharp Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — Moving towards an “ultimate goal of recovery” in California’s condor population, the LA Zoo announced that 10 healthy chicks hatched during the zoo’s 2025 California condor breeding season. All of the chicks will be candidates for release into the wild as part of the California Condor Recovery Program, under the leadership of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. “The…
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