A Difficult Situation
The hardest thing about this entire mission was not knowing if all 9000 tortoises were going to make it to the end. Due to the conditions that they were living in, in the abandoned house, quite a few of these animals weren’t dealing so well since they were taken to safety. 1000 tortoises developed a type of disease as a result of these conditions which left them somewhat damaged.
Sadly, the 1000 tortoises that fell ill did not survive and succumbed to their sickness. And even though 8000 tortoises remained alive, they weren’t in the best shape ever… No one knew how many more tortoises were going to die as a result of their life before. One thing was for certain, they didn’t want these tortoises to suffer…