california condor extinction affecting mankind|||First off they are not going extinct. They are increasing from a mear 21 that were captured from the wild and the USFWS started a captive breeding program. There are over 400 now in the world and close to 200 in the wild. There have been close to 25 of the birds born in the wild. The birds have been headed for extinction for the last 10,000 years and would be gone if the government hadn't stepped in to halt the downward trend. It is an expensive program but the California Condor is the largest flying bird in North America at up to 25 pounds and wingspan of 9 1/2 feet. If the condor went extinct there would not be any significant impact on humans. I have worked as a volunteer with the USFWS Condor Recovery Program for several years. You keep assuming that the extinction of the Condor will have a significant impact. The condor is a scavenger and doesn't kill or affect other species, much less humans. There are other scavengers that can fill this nitch. One of which is increasing right now, the black vulture and the turkey vulture and the raven. The condor did very well durning the spanish period of California. They raised large herds of free roam beef from which they mostly only used the tallow (fat) and exported the hides, the meat was to abundant to be consumed and could not be exported so it rotted in the fields and provided a ready and abundant meal for the condors. Although the condor of today do find an occasional meal by themselves, they are being fed by the USFWS using, guess what, aborted fetuses from dairy cattle.|||It's quite possible that if the California Condors really do go extinct, mankind will never notice. In fact, Nature might not even notice. That's the thing, Nature is enough of a web that you can rip apart a piece of thread here-and-there, without really affecting the whole. The threads immediately around will notice, but beyond that, nobody cares. It's only when you start making major changes, or many minor changes, that real problems begin. Not that I want to see the bird go extinct. It's a magnificent creature, though absolutely butt-ugly, if you've ever been to the San Diego Wild Animal Park and seen them in person.|||It wont really have a major affect, think about it. We have all this Technology and all that good stuff now so a connection between one species of bird will not have a major impact. Now if all of the same type went extinct, well we might have more carcasses laying around? XD|||there will be 1 less hideous bird to pick at our corpses if we die in the desert. let's be honest here people. if these birds can't avoid the giant spinning blades of death that are windmills I'm just gonna call that natural selection and consider the world a better place|||people who eat only california condors will likely starve to death

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