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Tortoises stolen from the St. Augustine Alligator Farm

The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is asking for help finding two Galapagos tortoises that were stolen from the zoo Nov. 30. The tortoises are endangered and have been at the zoo since ...
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In the 1900s, invasive goats damaged Española Island’s habitat as 15 tortoises formed a breeding group; by 2020, more than 2,300 lived there

Española Island in Ecuador’s Galápagos archipelago came close to losing its giant tortoise population. Just 15 animals formed the founding group for a long-term conservation program that eventually ...

Sent back to the Galápagos after about 30 years at the San Diego Zoo, this tortoise went on to father more than 800 young

Returned to the Galápagos in 1977 after approximately four decades in California, Diego joined a captive breeding program that would transform the future of the Española giant tortoise. He went on to ...
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Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop tortoise backyard breeding

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop the backyard breeding of tortoises. Tortoise Group Board Chair, Laura Deitsch, says right now there are about 150,000 pet tortoises in the ...
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Galapagos tortoises were hunted by pirates for food and went extinct on Floreana Island; after 180 years, conservationists brought them back to their ancestral home

The story of the Galápagos giant tortoise is one of exploitation, extinction and an extraordinary conservation comeback. Pirates, whalers and other sailors once collected the slow-moving animals from ...
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New report warns 54% of turtles and tortoises are at risk of extinction

If you liked this story, share it with other people. More than half of the world’s 359 turtle and tortoise species now face extinction, with the crisis worsening despite global conservation efforts.