The young tortoises were set free on Santa Fe island, the Galapagos National Park service announced.
Members of the Galapagos National Park service measure a giant tortoise on Santa Cruz Island, in the remote Ecuadorean archipelago 600 miles off South America’s Pacific coast.
The tortoises, each aged around 10-12 years old, were raised at the Fausto Llerena breeding centre and are part of a program to repopulate the island at the centre of the Pacific archipelago. “The tortoises that have been released carry a microchip under their skin with a permanent number attached to make it easier to track them,” said Jorge Carrion, the head of the Galapagos National Park.
The giant tortoises are “engineers of the ecosystem” because they help spread vegetation in their natural habitat, said Carrion. Located some 600 miles off the coast of South America, the islands belong to Ecuador and are classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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