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The Hood Island giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger hoodensis) [1] is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise endemic to Española Island in the Galápagos. Population history
Madeira firecrest (R. madeirensis) Order: Passeriformes Family: Regulidae. The kinglets, also called crests, are a small group of birds often included in the Old World warblers, but frequently given family status because they also resemble the titmice. Goldcrest, Regulus regulus; Madeira firecrest, Regulus madeirensis (E)
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) Family: Dermochelyidae Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) Family: Emydinae European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta) Family: Geoemydidae
The high, long, and rocky islands of the group are barren of topsoil, and the only wildlife consists of about sixteen species of birds, including eight species of seabirds, and a scarce population of feral goats, rabbits, and rodents, brought from Portugal by the mariners who first reached the rocky shores.
This is a list of indigenous mammals of the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira in the North Atlantic ocean. Besides the mammals on the islands, the coastal waters are host to at least nine species of dolphins and ten species of migrating cetaceans. These are protected in the 430,000 km 2 Madeiran Marine Mammal Sanctuary. [1]
Sousa Group is a Portuguese private business group based in Funchal, Madeira. It is a maritime-port, logistics, energy and tourism operator [1] and is considered the largest Portuguese shipowner. [2] The Sousa Group includes cargo shipping companies GS Lines, [3] the shipping company Porto Santo Line [4] where it
Hoss, a 35-pound sulcata tortoise, slipped out of his Hood County, Texas, enclosure a week before Thanksgiving and made his way to Hico, Texas. Here’s how he found his way home.
A group of ten Portuguese marines were placed on the island for a month to put an end to poaching of protected species. [ 30 ] 2007 – June, one Spanish search and rescue airplane flew over the islands at low altitude, prompting the Portuguese Ministry of the Environment to contact its Spanish counterpart over the issue.