On June 15 of 2020, the Galapagos National Park, with the scientific support of the Galapagos Conservancy NGO, conducted the elaborate process of repatriating the 15 original Española Island giant tortoises, rescued in the 1960’s, back to their island of origin, after 55 years of absence, conducting an iconic program of breeding in captivity at the National Park’s Giant Tortoises Breeding Center in Santa Cruz Island. This was the last step of a program considered internationally as one of the most successful in the world. Without it, one more Galapagos giant tortoise species could have well become extinct.
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