The majestic flight of the California condor it is possible to observe it once again over the sky that covers the San Pedro Mártir mountain rangein Baja Californiathanks to the efforts that have been made over the last three decades to save North America's largest bird from extinction.
The story of this effort will be told in the Summit 2023 Prosperity: A Possible Purposeof Sea of Cortez ForumThe film was presented in the voice of two of its main protagonists: Juan Vargas Velasco y Catalina Porras Peña. The summit will be held on November 8, 9 and 10 in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur.
Biologists will participate with the discussion: The case of the Californian Condor in the Sierra de San Pedro Mártirwhere they will have as moderator the conservationist photographer Patricio Robles Gil.
Through this experience they will show a case of good practice in the restoration of endangered species and the preservation of ecosystems as elements of the 2040 dream guide of Sea of Cortez Forum.
Vargas Velasco is Field Manager of the California Condor Reintroduction Program. Since 2002, he has dedicated his efforts to the conservation of the California condor in the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Parkin Baja California, where he has been living full time for 21 years, first in tents and since 2010 in the biological station.
Porras Peña is Director of California Condor Reintroduction Program. She is the biologist responsible for the California Condor Reintroduction Program in Sierra San Pedro Mártir National Park.
It is worth noting that from zero condors seen in the wild in Mexico in 1939, that is, practically extinct, there are now approximately 45, still in the endangered category.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has a recorded worldwide population of 561 California condors, up from 25 in 1983.
