Nearly 150 years after the last giant tortoises were removed from Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galápagos archipelago, the species made a comeback, when dozens of juvenile hybrids were released to begin restoring the island’s depleted ecosystem. https://cnn.it/4aLYHy2 | CNN

Four Chagos islanders have landed on one of the Indian Ocean archipelago's atolls to establish what they say will be a permanent settlement, a move they hope will complicate a British plan to transfer the territory to Mauritius. | Reuters