With the remarkable recovery of bald eagles, Ventana Wildlife Society declares victory.

In the mid-1980s, when the Ventana Wildlife Society began reintroducing bald eagles to the Central Coast, the last known bald eagle nest in the region dated back to 1933, near the top of a redwood tree along Torre Creek on the Big Sur coast.

But since the reintroduction campaign by VWS – a conservation nonprofit – which released 66 bald eagles in Big Sur from 1986 to 1994, the iconic birds have made a spectacular recovery: Scientists believe there are now 30 breeding pairs of bald eagles from Marin to Santa Barbara counties.

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Posted on June 29, 2017 12:25 PM by biohexx1