Summary
WE FEAR a tortoise may prove a formidable obstacle to the South African developers planning a luxury hotel on the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean, described by Sir David Attenborough as "one of the wonders of the world".
Environmentalist are predictably up in arms, but a foe more fearsome looms across its lagoons.See the full content of this document
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Simon Pia's Diary: Tam for More Shellfire?
Tam Dalyell was once asked by an admirer if he had ever changed anything in his career. He replied, rather touchingly, that he had only saved the great tortoise on the Aldabra Atoll. That was back in the Sixties, when Tam fought p...
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