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The Return of Tortoises to Santa Fe Island - June 27, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdzVagISaO4 - edited in thanks to Pagan Queen , hope it works - (is further down too tried and tested)
When the weather is grey I scan for web cams of Tortoises in the Galapagos - It is very cheering !! I found the wonderful return of these lovely tortoises. some one better than me will be able to hyperlink it. pleeeese ! ok a bit sexist but the Spanish lady is lovely... talker and the tortoises are superb ! quite funny. extracted - 'Tortoises went extinct on Santa Fe Island in the mid-1800s due to human exploitation. On June 27, 2015, Galapagos Conservancy and the Galapagos National Park brought 201 young EspaƱola tortoises, the most genetically similar to the extinct Santa Fe species, to begin to repopulate the island with tortoises'. How blooming exciting for a Wednesday evening !!! cb
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dooh , cause I am I meant u tube !!! I want a tortoise called Santa Fe ! (theres that word again ....62 days to go..im guessing, not that sad)
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Thanks CB - I must have a look for that one.
There have been a few encouraging tortoise projects in the Galapagos in recent years. So welcome after all the carnage that went before.
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I found this website which has great videos. http://www.galapagos.org/gallery/tortoise-cam/
I would absolutely love to do volunteering and tortoise research on the Galapagos islands, I had an opportunity to go out to South Africa at the end of the Summer hols to do field work on the homopus tortoise but I would've missed a lot of school
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Ooooh - you have got me addicted now!!
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Well done Olly, it is the Galapagos Conservancy site that did the Return of Tortoises to Santa Fe , they posted it on You Tube but I don't know how to hyperlink - I like their web site. and web cam.
One day perhaps eh ! you will have lots of opportunity I am sure. The main Galapagos site had lots of little hatchlings too on their web cam, nice one !! cb
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Ok my first hyperlink post !!! lets see if I followed your instructions strictly to the letter ! thank-you , ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdzVagISaO4
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thank-you , I couldn't even do that on email ! have you seen the one eating the cacti , they are all so brilliant , 150 years without tortoises !! all the cacti will be gone in a week ! cb
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