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===== These ‘miniature Komodo dragons’ faced extinction on a remote Caribbean island – until a difficult ‘regreening’ project started ===== | |||
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/reptiles/saving-sombrero-lizards-on-sombrero-island by Graeme Green 5/7/25 DISCOVER WILDLIFE] | |||
At first glance, Sombrero Island doesn’t look like a place where life thrives. The surface of this tiny, remote, windswept land mass, 54km north-west of the Caribbean island of Anguilla, has an austere, moon-like appearance, with white-grey rock, strewn rubble and gigantic craters that are an uncomfortable reminder of the phosphate mining that devastated and permanently altered its landscape. | |||
===== The reef that shouldn’t exist ===== | ===== The reef that shouldn’t exist ===== | ||