Slow and Steady in the Galápagos Islands: Conservationists Race to Save Giant Tortoises
Muse Magazine, September 2022
In 2012 Lonesome George, the last remaining Pinta Island tortoise, died in his corral. He’d been brought to a captive breeding program in his native Galápagos Islands, but he never bred. Two other giant tortoise species were already extinct. Read on to see how conservationists are working hard to repopulate other giant tortoise species, which serve as keystone species for the Galápagos and play a critical role in the survival of a variety of plants and animals.
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