Tortoise Tube
Wow! Check this out, kids. This is the first film of how tortoises came back to Pinta Island in Galapagos last year!
Courtesy of our American friends, Galapagos Conservancy, we can now show you how, after nearly 40 years, Pinta once again has giant tortoises living there. Thanks to people like you, GCT has been able to support this work.
Did you know experts reckon there were 5,000 to 10,000 giant tortoises on Pinta before pirates and whalers began eating them for food? Yes, hard to believe any one would want to hurt these amazing, peaceful creatures. Let alone eat them!
In fact tortoises were believed to be extinct on Pinta. Everone was surprised and delighted when the world's most famous tortoise, Lonesome George, was discovered on Pinta in 1971.
Lonesome George was transported to the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in the spring of 1972 to ensure his safety and he remains Galapagos' most famous resident.
The first part of this film shows you Lonesome George in his home before we see his friends leaving for Pinta.
Courtesy of our American friends, Galapagos Conservancy, we can now show you how, after nearly 40 years, Pinta once again has giant tortoises living there. Thanks to people like you, GCT has been able to support this work.
Did you know experts reckon there were 5,000 to 10,000 giant tortoises on Pinta before pirates and whalers began eating them for food? Yes, hard to believe any one would want to hurt these amazing, peaceful creatures. Let alone eat them!
In fact tortoises were believed to be extinct on Pinta. Everone was surprised and delighted when the world's most famous tortoise, Lonesome George, was discovered on Pinta in 1971.
Lonesome George was transported to the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in the spring of 1972 to ensure his safety and he remains Galapagos' most famous resident.
The first part of this film shows you Lonesome George in his home before we see his friends leaving for Pinta.