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Marines airlift tortoises to new desert homes


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US Marines Airlifted 1,100 Tortoises to New Desert Homes

The U.S. Marine Corps had an unusual mission this month: to airlift more than 1,000 desert tortoises across the Mojave Desert.

Desert tortoises are native to the southwestern desert, and a population of the reptiles had made their home near the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. However, plans to expand the Marines' training grounds for large-scale exercises with live fire would have put the tortoises at risk, so the military took on the massive task of relocating approximately 1,100 desert tortoises.

Read more: Live Science

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Kudos to the Marines !!! 

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I'm amazed at how much research and effort went into this endeavor. But it was definitely all worth it!

And yeah, our Marines rock!

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