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In the United States, media named him Lonesome George – after George Gobel, a TV comedian, who had become known himself as Lonesome George. However, despite many international campaigns and genetic analyses of any potential Pinta tortoise found in zoos, none has been located to this day.īut Lonesome George got a lot of attention, perhaps more than any other endling. After that, an international quest began in all the zoos around the world to find a female for George. Vágvölgyi recounted his observation back in port, and in the spring of 1972, Galapagos National Park rangers brought the tortoise to the Tortoise Center on Santa Cruz for its protection. Then in 1971 the scientist from Hungary József Vágvölgyi, saw a tortoise on the island – Lonesome George. The goats had devastated the vegetation and had essentially eliminated any good tortoise habitat left. The tiny goat population, however, exploded, and by 1970 it was around 40,000. Given the distance to Pinta from port, these fishermen simply wanted fresh meat on their long fishing voyages. Except for the absence of giant tortoises, the island was in near pristine condition until 1959, when fishermen released three goats there. The Pinta tortoise were extinct in the early part of the 20 th century. Discovered roaming the rocky island in the Galapagos archipelago on his. His death shocked those who cared for him due in part to his young age-giant tortoises from George’s particular subspecies can live to be 200. When Lonesome George died in 2012, it was thought that so did the last Pinta Island giant tortoise.
He died, scientists later determined, from natural causes. Lonesome George caretakers found him dead on the morning of June 24 2012, He was in his corral. George serves as an important symbol for conservation efforts in the Galápagos Islands and throughout the world. In his last years, people knew him as the rarest creature in the world. Lonesome George was a male Pinta Island tortoise ( Chelonoidis abingdoni) and the last known individual of the subspecies. A Pinta Island tortoise is the last Galapagos icon
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