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Saw this really neat article a few days ago and knew I wanted it to be the first thing I shared.
The Galapagos Tortoises takes decades to reach sexual maturity which makes breeding programs very slow in the best cases, and not productive in the worse.
As the article points out rats where introduced on the island when they started to predate on eggs and hatchlings. Now after the rats have been killed off the Tortoises are once again able to breed and lay their eggs.
Although breeding programs are great, nothing beats giving animals a natural environment to live and breed.
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