Legal Opinion
National Audubon Society v. F. Eugene Hester, Acting Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 5, 1986No. 86-5086PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion PER CURIAM.
2Per curiam
The California condor, the largest winged inhabitant of North America, has been decimated to the point where only twenty-six members of the species remain in existence. At the time this controversy began, all but six of the birds were kept in zoos in Los Angeles and San Diego as part of a breeding program designed to avert extinction of the species. This lawsuit arises from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s decision to bring the remaining con dors in from the wild. The district court granted plaintiff National Audubon Society’s request for a preliminary injunction barring…
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