CNN founder Ted Turner’s New Mexico ranch helped save North America’s rarest large tortoise, growing its population from 30 to about 800
- For thousands of years, the Bolson tortoise had been missing from the grasslands of New Mexico.
- Then a private ranch offered the species something it had not had in generations: space to start again.
- What began with just 30 captive tortoises grew into a population of roughly 800 through a long-running conservation effort backed by Ted Turner’s Turner Endangered Species Fund.
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- For thousands of years, the Bolson tortoise had been missing from the grasslands of New Mexico.
- Then a private ranch offered the species something it had not had in generations: space to start again.
- What began with just 30 captive tortoises grew into a population of roughly 800 through a long-running conservation effort backed by Ted Turner’s Turner Endangered Species Fund.
Sources: Times of India