A travel content creator spent over R2k in one day exploring Zanzibar's Prison Island and Nakupenda Island, sharing an honest budget breakdown with followers.

By the time the oldest human dies, odds are there's a giant tortoise out there somewhere who'll live twice as long as they did. Hailing from the Indian Ocean and the Galapagos islands, giant ...

Conservationists have successfully released 560 giant tortoises to the Galápagos Islands as part of a scheme to boost the numbers of the animal, which once came close to extinction.

Changuu Island's journey from slavery to sanctuary resonates as a beacon of hope and transformation. It invites visitors to witness the remarkable Aldabra giant tortoises in their natural habitat, ...

As giant tortoises regain a foothold on these fragile islands, landscapes and plant communities are already beginning to reap the rewards. However, success for projects like these is measured in ...

Analysis - A six-year-old project to return giant tortoises to the wild in Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years.

A captive breeding program has seen the return of Galápagos giant tortoises to Española in the Galápagos Islands. As the tortoise population rebounds, the island ecosystem is in the process of ...

A decades-long project to reintroduce Galapagos giant tortoises is changing the face of the island of Española.

In the following century, conservationists set out to restore the Galápagos giant tortoise on Española—and the island ecosystem. They began eradicating the introduced species, and capturing ...

In close proximity to Stone Town, there is the legendary Changuu island also known as Prison Island. Early on there was the real prison site where slaves were detained in a sort of quarantine. Though ...