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Pinna Island, California - The Island With No Tortoise

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On pinna island, things were spinning out of control. The forest was getting overgrown with the wrong kind of plant. tortoises had been hunted by whalers for centuries. In about 19 o six, the to tortoise went extinct. They don't know the exact date. But then one evening in march of 19 72, ah, yes. A well known tortoise researcher found a male tortoise and named him 'george'

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