They laid eggs twice, but they were infertile. Scientists had been trying to get George to mate since 1993, when they introduced two female tortoises of a different subspecies into his pen. Ecuador turns to UN to help preserve storied Galapagos islesĪ spokesperson said the park plans to carry out a necropsy to determine what may have killed the tortoise.tortoise recovered for the second time in two months The Galapagos National Park is considering embalming George’s body so that it can be displayed in the park, Naula said. The giant Galapagos tortoises, which can live up to 200 years old, were among the species that helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution in the 19th century. George was believed to be around 100 years old and the last member of a species of giant tortoise from La Pinta, one of the smallest islands in the Galapagos, the Galapagos National Park said. “This morning the park ranger in charge of looking after the tortoises found Lonesome George, his body was motionless,” the head of the Galapagos National Park, Edwin Naula, told Reuters. Lonesome George was found in 1972 and had become a symbol of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, which attracted some 180,000 visitors last year.
He was thought to be about 100 years old. QUITO - Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/GettyImages The body of the famed Galapagos giant tortoise Lonesome George is removed on stretcher from a corral at the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Sunday.ĪP Photo/Galapagos National Park Direction He was believed to be about 100 years old. Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise, subspecies Geochelone nigra abingdoni, died Sunday.
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