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Another day, another turtle making us cry.
At 130 years-old, a Galapagos giant tortoise named Diego is making his return home after saving his species. How? By fathering 800 offspring, with the population going from 15 to 2,000 tortoises thanks to Diego. Plus, 40 percent of the current population of tortoises are thought to be descendants of Diego.
Now Diego is finally able to retire after Ecuador's Environmental Ministry announced it will be ending the 40-year captive breeding program that first brought Diego to the island in the '60s.