500 tortoises turned the Saharan desert into something that looked alive even from outer space
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500 tortoises turned the Saharan desert into something that looked alive even from outer space
A conservation story is giving people a rare dose of hope about the Sahara. Five hundred tortoises were released into a severely degraded part of the desert, and within five years, satellite imagery showed green patches in areas that had been mostly sand. The story centers on African spurred tortoises, a native species also known as Centrochelys sulcata, the Indian Defence Review reported. In 2021, researchers placed 500 of them in a degraded ar…
In the Sahel, on the southern edge of the Sahara, the conditions are extreme: days when the temperature exceeds 60°C and nights that cool strongly. The soil is transformed into a hard crust that prevents rainwater from infiltrating and makes germination of seeds almost impossible. Faced with this problem, the introduction of 500 African spiny-shelled turtles (Centrochelys sulcata) in 2021 has given new hope to curb desertification, explains L的In…
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