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Giants of Big Sur: California Condor Stories Part 1: Return to the Wild

Directed By
Ross Thomas
Produced By
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Cinema Verde
2023
Giants of Big Sur: California Condor Stories Part 1: Return to the Wild
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Giants of Big Sur: California Condor Stories Part 1: Return to the Wild
20
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Conservation
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Extinction
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Pollution
United States
2022

Go behind the scenes with Wilderness Documentarian Ross Thomas as he learns the amazing and inspiring stories of the critically endangered California condor. Ross meets the Ventana Wildlife Society experts who have been working since 1997 to restore these majestic giants to the wild Big Sur coast. Ross’s epic journey begins with a once-in-a-lifetime visit with Senior Wildlife Biologist and California Condor Recovery Program Manager, Joe Burnett, to a wild condor’s nest deep in the Big Sur wilderness. Ross witnesses the intimate interaction between a condor parent and its new chick in the crown of a giant redwood tree. Ross then travels with Joe to see the Condor’s Big Sur sanctuary, which was destroyed by the Dolan Fire in 2020.

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