🐢 Species restoration takes time. But slow and steady can win the race against extinction. Last year, conservationists released 42 Bolson Tortoises into the wild, slowly helping reclaim a landscape they haven’t shaped in generations. In the grasslands of New Mexico, each release is a step toward something larger: a future where this species is secure and once again engineering its ecosystem—digging burrows, cycling nutrients, and creating shelter for countless other species. This progress is the result of 🥚 conservation breeding programs, which care for hatchlings until they are big enough to thrive in the wild. The Turner Endangered Species Fund is leading this work, in close collaboration with usfws. Every phase of the conservation breeding program is designed to give the tortoises not just a chance to survive, but the opportunity to flourish. 🌎 The Bolson Tortoise is one of the first species supported by the Colossal Species Reintroduction Fund, a fund established by the Colos...