Silversea Cruises is setting sail in 2016 for what might be considered the Galapagos of the Eastern Hemisphere. The unspoiled, largely unvisited Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean is one destination on ...

SeaWorld San Antonio announced late last week that it is opening a new attraction, Aldabra Island. The island will serve as a habitat for the Aldabra giant tortoise, one of the world’s largest land ...

A previously extinct species of bird returned from the dead, reclaiming the island it previously lived on and re-evolving itself back into existence, scientists have said. The white-throated rail ...

The Seychelles' remote atoll of Aldabra has been listed as an Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) alongside other areas which are key habitats for various threatened species, said the Seychelles ...

SAN ANTONIO – Aldabra tortoises — one of the largest tortoise species in the world — now call SeaWorld San Antonio home. SeaWorld San Antonio said Tuesday that the new exhibit, called Aldabra Island, ...

India, Qatari royals, China and ecologists have their own, very different, views on Assumption Island's future.

Despite sea level rise in Western Indian Ocean, more than 60% of Aldabra Atoll's shoreline remained unchanged from 1960 to 2011, based on aerial and satellite image analysis. On average, the shoreline ...

Thomas Peschak is full of energy. Passionate, full-blown, infectious, energy. When I sat down to interview him for a series of blog posts about his recent trip to Aldabra Atoll for National Geographic ...

SEYCHELLES-The last time a Lindblad Expeditions ship was destined for Aldabra Atoll — the most remote in the Seychelles chain of islands — a Somali pirate ship forced it to turn back. Five years later ...

They can live for more than 100 years and weigh up to 250 kilograms – Aldabra giant tortoises. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now decoded the genome of Aldabrachelys gigantea, one of ...