{"id":2649,"date":"2025-03-18T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2025-03-14T14:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:44:51","slug":"the-galapagos-tortoise-is-making-a-comeback-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-galapagos-tortoise-is-making-a-comeback-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galapagos tortoise is making a comeback. Here&#8217;s How."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1600s and 1700s, San Crist\u00f3bal was overrun by cats, rats and goats, all of which outcompeted the slow-moving Gal\u00e1pagos tortoises for food. \u00a0At the same time, carnivores feasted on their eggs, and the combination caused the population to nosedive.\u00a0 Today, however, with human help, the giant tortoises are making a comeback.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Return of the giant: how the Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise is being brought back from extinction<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/holidays-days-out\/travel-planner\/how-the-galapagos-tortoise-is-being-brought-back-from-extinction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/holidays-days-out\/travel-planner\/how-the-galapagos-tortoise-is-being-brought-back-from-extinction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781629441870\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1600s and 1700s, San Crist\u00f3bal was overrun by cats, rats and goats, all of which outcompeted the slow-moving Gal\u00e1pagos tortoises for food. \u00a0At the same time, carnivores feasted on their eggs, and the combination caused the population to nosedive.\u00a0 Today, however, with human help, the giant tortoises are making a comeback. Return of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-galapagos-tortoise-is-making-a-comeback-heres-how\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Galapagos tortoise is making a comeback. Here&#8217;s How.&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}