New report highlights top 50 tortoises and turtles on brink of extinction

Mongabay
Mar 22, 2018, 10:43 am131 pts
When Lonesome George died in June 2012, it was the end of an entire species. He was the last surviving Pinta giant tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii), a Galapagos conservation icon who had lived for more than 100 years. But Lonesome George was not alone in his fate. More than 50 percent of the world’s 356…

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