Jonathan Franklin

Andean skiing offers an unforgettable combination of beach-style weather, great snow and exotic travel. There are many attractions. Here on the fringes of the Andes, skiers will find few lift queues, tickets 50% cheaper than France, and unique scenery that includes condors and Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak outside the Himalayas.

American Journalist

Lana Condor

Whenever I meet someone new, I always extend a hand and say, 'Hi I'm Lana Condor... Condor like the ugly endangered bird.' I like to see how people react to that and if they laugh and, indeed, know what a condor is... chances are we're going to get along just fine!

American Actress

Roseanne Barr

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

The term 'condor' is often associated with the specific regions where these birds live.

Geographic Significance

'Condor' can symbolize freedom or nature in South and North American cultures.

Cultural Symbol

'Condor' can invoke topics of conservation, as some species are endangered.

Conservation Status

 we have safe species like the giant panda we've saved species like the Mexican gray wolf we've saved species like the California condor and the black-footed ferret and the whooping crane we can do it we certainly can the goal is to get all six thousand species in the world zoos and aquariums I'm almost halfway there now after eight

A New Age of Exploration...

 longer list of black footed ferrets American bison Californian condor many of them are stories that we know but the trick is really working together as one team and all of us all of us fighting to save species from extinction around the world the end game the point of success is having healthy populations back in

Putting a Species on the...

 for at least a year and while we're doing that we carry out studies on birds bats bees and whatnot we don't want to kill California condors or Golden Eagles and we don't want to dig up native burial sites we don't want to be too closest to airports or whatever the case may be and after a year or so you get

How a windmill gets...

 And they see reviving extinct species as the kind of good news you might be able to build on. Here's a couple related examples. Captive breeding will be a major part of bringing back these species. The California condor was down to 22 birds in 1987.

Stewart Brand: The dawn...

 It's very remote, it's very dry and it's very beautiful. And there's not much there. There are condors, there are tarantulas, and at night, when the light dims, it reveals one of the darkest skies on Earth. It's kind of a magic place, the mountain.

This new telescope might...

 quickly reduce the carcass to a skeleton the Condors are attracted not only to life sin but also its beginning stillborn calves or after births are welcome source of food temperatures in

Undertakers of the Sky PIPE...

 the carcass to a skeleton the Condors are attracted not only to life's end but also its beginning stillborn calves or after births are a welcome source of food temperatures in

 the carcass to a skeleton the Condors are attracted not only to life sin but also its beginning stillborn calves or after births are welcome source of food temperatures in

 they can be a condor definitely pie with ice cream definitely Beach Ocean Beach I I have to take both both at their best there's nothing like it picking one of

20 Questions with Neil...

 to drag it up to the tree another Aida chance is fine and decides to play a little game of as a condor hole window