U.S. wildlife officials have finalized an agreement with Ted Turner's Endangered Species Fund regarding the release of more Bolson tortoises on the media mogul's Armendaris Ranch in central New Mexico.
While the average lifespan of North America's largest and most rare tortoise species is unknown, biologists have said it could span upward of a century.So saving the endangered species is a long game — one that got another nudge forward Friday as U.S. wildlife officials finalized an agreement with Ted Turner's Endangered Species Fund that clears the way for the release of more Bolson tortoises on the media mogul's ranch in central New Mexico.
"What we're doing here is establishing a population here that can be handed off to the next generation," Sartorius said. While it's been eons since the tortoises roamed wild in what is now New Mexico, Mike Phillips, director of the Turner Endangered Species Fund, said it's time for biologists to reconsider what ecological reference points should matter most when talking about the recovery of an imperiled species.
Sartorius, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, agreed, saying managers can't look narrowly at historic range and still keep animals like the tortoise on the planet. "The releases are the essential step to getting them back on the ground and letting them be wild tortoises," she said."To us, this is the pinnacle of what we do."
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