The Region - News from Jan. 12, 1987

About 25 environmentalists and members of the Chumash Indian tribe quietly demonstrated outside the Los Angeles Zoo in protest against the captive breeding of California condors. The demonstrators expressed the view that the captive breeding program, which now involves 25 of the huge birds, will increase the chances that the condors will become extinct. At present, only two remain in the wild, and plans are to release the first newly bred birds between 1990 and 1992 into their natural habitat in northern Ventura and southern Kern counties.