Articles Tagged with “tortoise”

3 Articles found tagged with “tortoise”.

  • Wildlife Map Reveals Conservation Concerns

    By producing detailed maps on the distribution of the world’s reptiles, an international team of scientists has completed the ‘atlas of life’, the first global review and map of every vertebrate species on Earth.

    By Alex Taylor on 31st October 2017
  • The Comeback of the Galapagos Tortoise

    The global population was down to just 15 tortoises by the 1960s. Now there are some 1,000 tortoises breeding on their own. The population is secure. It’s a rare example of how biologists and managers can collaborate to recover a species from the brink of extinction.

    By Alex Taylor on 10th November 2014
  • Lonesome George: Death of an Icon

    For the last 40 years, this 5 foot-long, 200 lb tortoise lived on Santa Cruz Island at the Charles Darwin research centre in the Galapagos Islands, having been moved from Pinta when he was first discovered in 1972.

    By Alex Taylor on 4th July 2012