{"id":235429,"date":"2026-04-17T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/extinct-for-more-than-150-years-158-giant-tortoises-are-returning-to-floreana-and-their-return-could-revitalize-an-ecosystem-that-has-been-quietly-deteriorating-for-generations"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:29:07","slug":"extinct-for-more-than-150-years-158-giant-tortoises-are-returning-to-floreana-and-their-return-could-revitalize-an-ecosystem-that-has-been-quietly-deteriorating-for-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/extinct-for-more-than-150-years-158-giant-tortoises-are-returning-to-floreana-and-their-return-could-revitalize-an-ecosystem-that-has-been-quietly-deteriorating-for-generations","title":{"rendered":"Extinct for more than 150 years, 158 giant tortoises are returning to Floreana, and their return could revitalize an ecosystem that has been quietly deteriorating for generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extinct-for-more-than-150-years-158-giant-tortoises-are-returning-to-floreana-and-their-return-could-revitalize-an-ecosystem-that-has-been-quietly-deteriorating-for-generations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>158 giant tortoises are back on Floreana, reviving a lost Gal\u00e1pagos ecosystem after more than 180 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>158 giant tortoises are back on Floreana, reviving a lost Gal\u00e1pagos ecosystem after more than 180 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}