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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2012-06-25 07:44 pm
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The difference a day makes



via my brother Mike on email.
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[personal profile] buddleia 2012-06-25 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Gutting. GUTTING.

[identity profile] henriksdal.livejournal.com 2012-06-25 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
:(

I went to the Royal Museum not long after the Baji had been declared functionally extinct, and in the "endangered animals" section where it once was was an empty space and a sign saying "This exhibit has been removed"

It was so sad

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2012-06-25 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
George didn't do enough screwing, that was the problem!
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[personal profile] innerbrat 2012-06-25 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
subspecies. Not that it matters.

[identity profile] a-pawson.livejournal.com 2012-06-25 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Like pretty much everyone who has been to Galapagos I saw George in his enclosure. He was at the end of the day just another giant tortoise, yet he somehow became a whole lot more than that. He became a symbol of the struggle not just to protect Galapagos, but for the whole conservation movement. It's a bit of a surprise he is dead as 100 is young for a giant tortoise, but it looks like the last of the Pinta tortoises has ceased to be.

[identity profile] pigwotflies.livejournal.com 2012-06-25 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
:( Farewell Lonesome George. We shall not see your like again.

[identity profile] khbrown.livejournal.com 2012-06-26 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
What's the conservation status for humans?

If we didn't think of ourselves as special I'm sure there would be culls.
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