Editing San Diego Zoo Safari Park (section)

==Conservation==
The park includes the world's largest veterinary hospital. Adjacent to the hospital is the Institute for Conservation Research, which houses the San Diego Zoo's and Safari Park's [[Frozen zoo|Frozen Zoo]]. The park is Southern California's quarantine center for zoo animals imported into the United States through San Diego. 

The safari park was a major factor in the recovery of the California condor. Beginning in 1980, it worked with the [[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]] and the [[Los Angeles Zoo]] to start a [[captive breeding]] program.<ref name="azgfd" /> The last 22 condors were taken into captivity in 1987<ref name="azgfd" /> To breed the condors quickly, the Safari Park would remove the eggs from the nests to induce the females to lay a second egg.<ref name="azgfd" /><ref name="SDZ_global_condors" /> The removed egg hatches in an incubator and is raised with a condor handpuppet to prevent human imprinting, while the second egg is raised by its parents. The first condor born through this process is Siscouc, a male condor, who was the patriarch of the flock (last chick, Kitwon). Now that title goes to Siwon.<ref name="azgfd" /><ref name="SDZ_global_condors" /> Captive-bred condors were reintroduced into the wild beginning in 1992, and today their population 500, with 200 in the wild as of November 2020.<ref name="azgfd" />

On December 14, 2014, [[Angalifu]], a 44-year-old male [[northern white rhinoceros]], died of [[old age]] at the park. This left only five northern white rhinos left in the world, including one female at the Safari Park.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141216-rhinoceros-death-breeding-science-world-endangered-animals/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217033611/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141216-rhinoceros-death-breeding-science-world-endangered-animals/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 17, 2014|title=Death of Rare White Rhino Leaves 5 in the World|date=December 16, 2014|work=National Geographic|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref>
On November 22, 2015, the park's last northern white rhino, 41-year-old Nola, was [[euthanized]] due to bacterial infection and her health rapidly failing.

In June 2019, two young male [[African bush elephant|African elephant]]s named Ingadze and Lutsandvo were sent to Alabama's [[Birmingham Zoo]] as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Species Survival Plan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2019/06/28/birmingham-zoo-welcomes-2-new-male-african-elephants-from-san-diego-zoo-safari-park/|title = Birmingham Zoo Welcomes 2 New Male African Elephants from San Diego Zoo Safari Park|date = 28 June 2019}}</ref>
On 28 July 2019, the zoo announced the birth of Edward, a male Southern White Rhinoceros, the first rhino in North America born through artificial insemination, born to Victoria and Maoto. The second rhino born through artificial insemination, Future, a female southern White rhinoceros, was also born in the park. On August 12, 2018, the zoo announced the birth of Zuli, a male elephant born to Ndula, the largest calf born at the zoo, of 299 pounds. The record was broken six weeks later by Kaia, a female elephant born to Umngani, at 320 pounds.