Monday, 27 April 2026
158 giant tortoises just walked back onto Floreana Island — for the first time in 150 years.
158 giant tortoises just walked back onto Floreana Island — for the first time in 150 years. The native tortoises of Floreana were declared extinct in the 1800s. Then biologists found genetic traces of them in a mixed population on another island. They bred them back. This month, the first cohort came home.
Source: galapagos.org · Galápagos Conservancy + Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment, April 2026
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