National Geographic Traveller Australia and New Zealand - Summer 2015

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A new perspective

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in Kakadu is mindblowing, and the oncient gorges, rivers canyons, plains al plateaus ~ many the
keepers of sacred aboriginal rock art tens of thousands of years old ~ are surreal in their beauty,

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News & Reviews

ENDANGERED WILDLIFE + GLOBAL NEWS + YS!

BACK FROM THE BRINK

Numbering jst 15 in the 1960s, giant tortoises fount on the Galapagos istanel of Espanola
have fal their papation boasted to armanel 1,000 folloing.a successful breeding and
reintroduction program, While popslation numbers have been restored to 8 point where
Ue tortoises cum sustain Unenselves, he next testis whether or not Espanolals ecosystem

~ which was largely ravaged by feral goats introduced in the 1800S ~ is sil having adverse
impacts on the longevity ofthe giant tortoises. While the goats were removed in the 197,
their stripping of the fland’s unlergronrth has transformed Rspanol's naturally grassy
ecosystent into one of big and woody veyetation. "The effets ofthis on the reintroduced
tortoises wont be filly known for another 20-30 years, with the ecological restoration

potentially taking hundreds of years,