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#floreana — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Woot Woot 🤩 🐢

    galapagos.org/newsroom/a-homec

    *This February, after more than 180 years of absence, giant tortoises returned to Floreana Island.
    Giant tortoises once played a central role in shaping the island’s ecosystems, but they have been gone for more than 180 years. Their return restores a key ecological function and represents an important step in the broader, long-term effort to rebuild what was lost.*

    #Floreana #Ecuador #Tortoise #Galapagos #Nature #Science #goodnews

  2. Ecuador to reintroduce species on Galapagos island phys.org/news/2023-09-ecuador-

    "#Ecuador's government has announced it will spend $3.4 million on reintroducing 12 endemic #bird and #turtle species that have disappeared from an island in the #Galapagos archipelago... The project will also seek to weed out invasive #rodents and #cats on the island of #Floreana"

  3. #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #IslaChampion #Floreana #Galapagos #Ecuador #NoCopyright

    As the Floreana Mockingbird only occurs on Isla Champion off the coast of Floreana I'm posting these heavily cropped out of focus photographs of the bird. As you're not allowed to land on the island the photographs were taken from a Zodiac inflatable with 14 other birders.

    Floreana Mockingbird (Mimus trifasciatus) 25th May 2023