NOVATO, Calif. -- A type of ostrich facing extinction in Africa is getting a boost from volunteers half a world away in an RV storage park in Novato, California, CBS San Francisco reports. The North African ostrich faces fertility issues in the wild, so volunteers have turned the RV storage park into a hatchery lab and incubator. "The North African ostrich only has eight breeding pairs left in the wild," said Henry Cundill of the Team Niger Project. Led by a San Francisco plumbing contractor, Stephen Gold, a group of dedicated conservationists have created a high-tech, mobile ostrich hatchery that will be transported and set up in a remote area of Niger. The mission: "getting the percentage of hatched eggs up and the survival rate up in order to re-establish the population of the North African ostrich in the wild," said Cundill.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 27, 2018 18:38 UTC