Sulcatas in Red Cliffs Reserve

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An interesting article about non-native species in a park in the southwest ....

Https://www.thespectrum.com/story/n...rtoises-red-cliffs-desert-reserve/1722334002/
The people "freeing" those Sulcatas very likely thought that they were doing something "wonderful". Human intervention into Mother Nature, without knowlege, leads to tragedy. I often think of the attempt to move the California Desert Tortoises into a new habitat closer to Las Vegas. So many died. Tortoises are adapted to specialized environments and and we have the responsibility to either carefully replicate this in a captive/changing environment or to leave them alone. We care for 4 CDTs and have done all we can to replicate their native habitat in our Southern California yard. My wife and I dearly love this specie, and have long wished that there was a program for their capitive breeding and then returning them back into the wild safely.
 

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