Galapagos tortoise
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Going...going…
gone. The biggest and much of the best have already been lost. This Galapagos Tortoise is merely a stand-in for the extinct giant tortoises of Madagascar. The island's giant elephant birds are gone, though shell fragments of their two-gallon-size eggs still litter the ground in some areas. The orangutan-sized lemurs have vanished, and fifteen species of lemurs are recently extinct, including all the largest species. While few recent extinctions have been documented, many areas of wildlife habitat are being fragmented and degraded to the point that long-term viable populations of animals and plants cannot be sustained.
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Contents:
1.Large moth
2.Plateau village
3.Brickmaking
4.Clearing primary rainforest
5.Disappearing forest
6.Rainforest disappearance map
7.Air view of erosion
8.Red river (Betsiboka)
9.Roadside charcoal
10.Cissus takeover
11.Mananara River gallery forest
12.Poles from Ankarana
13.Galapagos tortoise
14.Reserves and vegetation map
15.Ranomafana entrance station
16.Masoala view
17.Black and White Ruffed Lemur
18.Black and White
Ruffed Lemur call
19.Madagascar Periwinkle
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