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Easy. ive had time to think about it, and ive made my decision. >> which, brings us back to the floreana mockingbird. >> hey. hi. youre awfully chill for an endangered species, man. you havent gotten the memo? that theres almost none of you left? [ chirping ] >> there are a couple reasons these friendly little guys have been driven from their home island. and humans brought them both. first, there are the rats, which have a taste for eggs, not just mockingbirds but iguana and tortoise eggs as we...

Galapagos. my name is bill weir, and im a storyteller. ive reported from all over the world, and i have seen so much change. so i made a list, the most wonderful places to explore right before they change forever. ♪ this is the wonder list. ♪ theres a special exhibit in my favorite museum. and its name is lonesome george. he is or was the last of his kind. see, when he died in 2012, the pinta tortoise joined the myriad of species that blinked out in

>> shortly after yelling land ho, those buccaneers would come over the hills and be treated to this, a landscape dotted with thousands of giant tortoises. and that was a huge find for them, because pound for pound, this is the easiest protein any hunter has ever bagged. using a big stick, two men would carry these back to the ship. they would put them upside down in the hold where they could live without food or water for up to a year. providing constant source of food for the crew. and all they...

Has completely transformed and the tortoise is coming back. youre an animal lover. thats why youve devoted your life to this work. >> thats yes started in this work. >> but in order to love the right ones you had to slaughter hundreds of thousands of goats how do you reconcile that? >> theres choices to be made. goats are found on hundreds of islands, probably thousands of islands within 180,000-plus islands around the world. but giant tortoises are not. and so with that, you know, we have decis...

Until conservationists eradicated the rats about two years ago. now with the discovery of baby tortoises in the wild the species could be saved from extinction. >> one of the things i would say to everyone working in conservation is keep plugging away. you dont see successes daily, monthly, yearly. you can visualize them. if you keep working to the vision, youll get there. >> reporter: it is slow going, much like the tortoises themselves. as for lonesome georges island experts say theyre working...