Galapagos giant tortoises make a comeback, thanks to innovative conservation strategies
- Written by James P. Gibbs, Professor of Vertebrate Conservation Biology and Director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Giant tortoise on Pinzon Island, GalapagosRory Stansbury, Island Conservation/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDThe Galapagos Islands are world-famous as a laboratory of biological evolution. Some 30 percent of the plants, 80 percent of the land birds and 97 percent of the reptiles on this remote archipelago are found nowhere else on Earth. Perhaps the most...
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