AB 821: Condors dodge a bullet

Taxpayers in California and the U.S. have spent tens of millions of dollars in a decades-long effort to save the California condor from extinction. Progress has been slow and halting but there has been progress. Wildlife scientists agree, however, that all these efforts are imperiled by the use of leaded ammunition to hunt big game, which condors then consume when they feed off the carrion, and that the condor will be lost unless we eliminate this exposure. AB 821 (Nava) bans the use of leaded ammunition for big game hunting in a specified range of the California condor.