SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Wildlife officials say a recovery program aimed at restoring the California condor in much of the Southwest has been hampered by lead poisoning from hunters’ bullets.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service says about half of the roughly 130 condors released since 1996 along the Arizona/Utah border have died or vanished.
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