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Iguana terrestre de Galapagos / Galapagos Land Iguana
Conolophus subcristatus
0.205108, -91.8015
Field Notes
Description:
Galapagos Land Iguana, in Isabela Island. The Galapagos Land Iguana is a Threatened specie qualified as "vulnerable" by the UICN Red List. According to Wikipedia : "Beginning in the early 1990s the Galapagos land iguana has been the subject of an active reintroduction campaign on Baltra Island. These animals became extinct on Baltra by 1954, allegedly wiped out by soldiers stationed there who shot the iguanas for amusement.
However, in the early 1930s, William Randolph Hearst had translocated a population of land iguanas from Baltra to North Seymour Island, a smaller island just a few hundred metres north of Baltra because he could not understand why no iguanas were present there. Hearst's translocated iguanas survived, and became the breeding stock for the Charles Darwin Research Station captive breeding program which has successfully reintroduced the species to Baltra and a number of other areas."
Habitat:
Isabela dry forest
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