Ted Turner’s New Mexico ranch helps rescue North America’s rarest tortoise from the brink, growing its population from just 30 to around 800 in a major conservation effort

Ted Turner’s New Mexico ranch has helped grow the Bolson tortoise population from 30 to around 800 through a long-term conservation programme aimed at reintroducing the rare species to the wild.
Phys.org

Researchers identify bacteria that can make the Bolson tortoise ill

The Bolson tortoise (Bolson Gopherus flavomarginatus) is the largest land reptile in North America. It lives mainly in dry areas, in particular, in the Chihuahua desert in northern Mexico. In recent ...
Business Wire

Colossal Foundation Commits $500,000 to Restore the Bolson Tortoise to the American Southwest

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Colossal Foundation, the 501(c)(3) charitable organization associated with Colossal, the de-extinction company, today announced a $500,000, 5 year commitment to the Turner ...
Hindustan Times

Argentina wildfire: One dead, 800 evacuated in El Bolson

A man died and hundreds of people evacuated from forest fires that have torn through about 3,000 hectares near the tourist hotspot of El Bolson, in Argentina's Patagonia mountains, authorities said ...
Indiatimes

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.