Saving the Kauai Puaiohi and California Condor with the San Diego Zoo
Through partnerships, collaborations, and community cooperation, the San Diego Zoo is making strides in helping protect some of the most threatened plants and animals from extinction. Alan Lieberman works with the Hawaiian Endangered Bird Conservation Program, and the Keauhou Conservation Center on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mike Wallace is a Program Director scientist with the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, with significant leadership experience on the zoo’s California Condor program.
Sen. Boxer Moves to Elevate Pinnacles National Monument to National Park Status
The landscape of Central California is some of the most sublime in the nation, especially in early spring when the hills and valleys are equally green and lush with new grass and colorful poppies from winter rains. However pleasant, the placid oak tree-dotted landscape is also deceptive, and does nothing to prepare you for the jarring change of scenery and outright primeval weirdness upon entering Pinnacles National Monument.
The Survival of the California Condor
Conservation biologist Bill Toone, the Founder and Executive Director of the Ecolife Foundation, joins Treehuggers International to talk about his work in the federally appointed California Condor Recovery Team, as well as his current work with the Ecolife Foundation and the upcoming Walking 4 Water 5K at Mission Bay Park on October 4th.
