fish and wildlife and national park service to help them with the management of california condors. there would like to use our veterinary expertise to help with the annual medical procedures with california condors. in the past, they were taken from the wild, they would take the populations that they were working with, in the tentacle wilderness population that they are referring to. they would take a couple of them out every year and much of them for poisoning. many of these animals have been shot with these lead bullets, and so -- they have a medical technique where they will leach out the bloodstream. we are delighted to be partnering with the fish and wildlife service. and the fish and game on this project. and i would like to talk about the san francisco zoo. like all of the communities and all of the city governments, it is important to deal with the waste stream, and people can help to select this and go to compost or garbage. we have been working with parks and recreation about this and we are up to 75% right now. we have biodiesel. we have these vehicles going out into sch

that have made a tremendous recovery while listed under the endangered species act include the california condor, a black footed ferret an the whooping crane and of great importance to my district, we're seeing signs of healthly -- healthy recover -- recovery for salmon. this impacts other states as well. ironically this deeply flawed provision does allow funding for the fish and wildlife service to delist recovered species under the act. however, you can't recover -- remove protections for recovered species unless they're listed as endangered in the first sp place and a successful recovery plan is implemented. this measure puts the cart before the horse. our bipartisan amendment, which is supported by more than 60 organizations, would strike this extreme provision. it's our responsibility to be good stewards of this earth and prevent the extinction of wildlife, plants and fish. the sad truth is that once we lose a species, we'll never get it back. that's why we need to allow for science-based policies and recovery plans for imperiled species instead of allowing politics to drive listing decisio