The account of the turtle named Diego: He had sex and produced over 800 phishes for his seed not to disappear.

When the addition programme had begun, only 15 representatives of the Chelonoidis hodenis species remained in the forest on the island of Espanjolas. Twelve were females, and three were males.

Their disappearance seemed inevitable. But, included in the breeding program, Diego, a man borrowed from the San Diego Zoo, writes The Guardian, translates Periscope.

The Diego turtle involvement in the program proved to be very important. The growing program produced 2 thousand new turtles, 40 percent of which, thanks to Mr. Diego, the turtle that is currently over 100 years old.

And we developed mathematical models with different scenarios for the next 100 years and in all of these scenarios was that this island had enough conditions to hold the turtle population that would continue to grow normally, even without the involvement of young people,” said Washington Tapia, director of the Initiation Initiative for the Restore of the Great Turtles.

Officials said that the success of the program was also due to the disappearance of other species and the cultivating of cactuses that help turtles.

According to Mr. Tapia, in the mid - 19th century, served as food for pirates and whale hunters and were also required for oil production. /Periscope