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This Galapagos Fernandina Giant Tortoise Statue/Sculpture will soon be part of the family in your home, garden or office. The realistic detail and quality craftsmanship are unparalleled. You are sure to find this exclusive art piece as your treasure trove of unique gifts and decorative accents. A truly unique and exotic piece of artwork for the Tortoise and wildlife lover.
High quality poly-resin, hand painted with U V Blocking Final Coating
32 inches long.

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“Extinct” for 112 Years: Galapagos Fernandina Giant Tortoise Rediscovery Confirmed Urgent expeditions will be launched to find mate and save species.Scientists
at Yale University have confirmed genetic similarity between a lone
female Giant Tortoise recently discovered on Fernandina Island and the
Fernandina Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus), last
reported 112 years ago and long considered lost forever. The female
Giant Tortoise was found during a 2019 joint expedition of Galápagos
Conservancy, the Galápagos National Park Directorate (GNPD), and Animal
Planet host Forrest Galante. To avoid the same tragic fate as Lonesome
George – the last Pinta Giant Tortoise who died in 2012 – an urgent
expedition to Fernandina Island will be launched by GNPD and Galápagos
Conservancy to find a mate and save the species.

At
the time of discovery, the GNPD and Galápagos Conservancy team was
confident that the female Giant Tortoise was the lost Fernandina Giant
Tortoise. However, to verify their assumption, a blood sample was sent
to geneticists at Yale, where a team led by Dr. Gisella Caccone sought
to uncover the genetic origin of the female tortoise and determine how
closely it matched the only other tortoise ever found on Fernandina
Island, a now-deceased large male found in 1906.

Nicknamed
“Fernanda” by her discoverers, genetic analysis has now confirmed that
she is related to the Chelonoidis phantasticus tortoise species native
to the island. These findings verify what researchers at Galápagos
Conservancy and GNPD had long hoped for.

“One of the greatest
mysteries in Galápagos has been the Fernandina Island Giant Tortoise.
Rediscovering this lost species may have occurred just in the nick of
time to save it. We now urgently need to complete the search of the
island to find other tortoises,” said Dr. James Gibbs, Vice President of
Science and Conservation for the Galápagos Conservancy and tortoise
expert at the State University of New York.

“We desperately want
to avoid the fate of Lonesome George,” said Danny Rueda Córdova,
Director of the Galápagos National Park Directorate. “My team from the
Park and Galápagos Conservancy are planning a series of major
expeditions to return to Fernandina Island to search for additional
tortoises beginning this September.”

Fernandina Island’s landscape
is dominated by an active volcano that makes expeditions very
challenging. If a male tortoise is located on the volcanic terrain, he
will be united with the lone female at the Galápagos National Park’s
Giant Tortoise Breeding Center in Santa Cruz. Scientists would then
oversee breeding efforts, rear any young safely in captivity, and
eventually return them to safe habitats on their native island of
Fernandina.

Prior to the 2019 discovery, only one specimen of the
Fernandina Giant Tortoise had ever been found — a male collected during
the California Academy of Sciences expedition in 1905-06. While
populations of Giant Tortoises were decimated throughout the Galápagos
archipelago in the 19th century due to exploitation by whalers and
buccaneers, the Fernandina Giant Tortoise species was believed to be
extinct due to volcanic eruptions in past centuries. The current
population of Giant Tortoises throughout the Islands is only 10-15% of
its historical numbers, estimated between 200,000-300,000 individuals.

But
there is hope. Park rangers have found signs (tracks and scat) of at
least two other tortoises on Fernandina Volcano during the searches that
resulted in the discovery of the lone female. Galápagos Conservancy has
launched an urgent appeal at galapagos.org/savethefernandinatortoise
to raise funds to undertake the expedition to find these and perhaps
other tortoises to save this species from the brink of extinction.