Biodiversity seemed doomed. NGM Maps But then the country experienced a shift in conservation consciousness—and the giant Aldabra tortoises are among its most visible signs. These massive ...

Two rare Aldabra giant tortoises, one of the biggest species ... keeping a lookout for predators and taking care of the babies. The new exhibit houses two different meerkat families with 15 ...

Let’s find out! Seychelles giant tortoises are a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise. These gentle beasts once lived throughout islands in the Indian Ocean and Madagascar. However ...

There are more tortoises than humans on this UNESCO World Heritage Site – in fact, it’s home to the largest wild Aldabra giant tortoise population in the world Esmeralda is a rather remarkable ...

Biosafety protocols attended to, we anchored off Aldabra, a rarely visited atoll that’s home to more than 150,000 giant tortoises ... was bathtub-calm, and baby blacktip reef sharks slipped ...

Among the ones in its care is a Galapagos giant tortoise, an endangered species. Among the 40 or so other tortoises is a Aldabra giant tortoise. Some have shells a full 130 centimeters in length.