BIGGEST TORTOISE IN THE WORLD

The "Aldabra giant tortoise" from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world. Many of these Tortoises live over 100 years. The Aldabras you are looking at here are on the famous "Prison Island" (aka Changuu) of Zanzibra, Tanzania.... Here is the story.... In 1919 the British governor of Seychelles sent a gift of four Aldabra Giant Tortoises to Changuu from the island of Aldabra.[1] These tortoises bred quickly and by 1955 they numbered around 200 animals. However people began to steal the tortoises for sale abroad as pets or for food and their numbers dropped rapidly. By 1988 there were around 100 tortoises, 50 in 1990 and just seven by 1996.[2] A further 80 hatchlings were taken to the island in 1996 to increase the numbers but 40 of them vanished. The Zanzibar government, with assistance from the World Society for the Protection of Animals built a large compound for the protection of the animals and by 2000 numbers had recovered to 17 adults, 50 juveniles and 90 hatchlings. The species is now considered vulnerable and has been placed on the IUCN Red List by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. More tortoises, mainly juveniles, continue to be brought to the island from other locations for conservation.

Comments

1. and The Mario Bros theme song going through my head...
2. its not
3. the biggest is the galapagos
4. 💯
5. Super cute :)
6. no way that's the biggest
7. historic animal
8. I need to go there
9. this is not the biggest
10. joke
11. jokr
12. Real like edit haah
13. I like turtles XD
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15. ninja tortise
16. Ninja turtle camp, where is april?
17. I always thought that the biggest ones lived on the Galapagos Islands out in the Pacific.
18. the biggest one is in Ecuador - only place in the world!!!
19. they are so cuteeeeeee :D
20. Blastoise I choose you