U.S. wildlife officials have finalized an agreement with Ted Turner’s Endangered Species Fund regarding the release of more Bolson tortoises on the media mogul’s Armendaris Ranch in central New Mexico.
Herpetologist Harry Greene holds a Bolson tortoise released on Armendariz Ranch in Engel, New Mexico, on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. – While the average lifespan of North America's largest and most rare tortoise species is unknown, biologists have said it could span upward of a century.
The tortoises usually spend about 85% of the time in their earthen burrows, which in some cases can be about 20 yards long. Now found only in the grasslands of north-central Mexico, the tortoise once had a much larger range that included the southwestern United States. Fossil records also show it was once present it the southern Great Plains, including parts of Texas and Oklahoma.
Absent a willingness by wildlife managers to think more broadly, he said, species like the Bolson tortoise could have a bleak future.
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