For the next century or so, the Aldabra tortoise was routinely described as gigantea.

WSJ

The clash over the Aldabra tortoise ranks as one of the most murky and bitter in the ICZN's 118-year history.

WSJ

Dr. Bour quickly concluded that the specimen came from Brazil, not Aldabra, and that gigantea was therefore no longer a valid name.

WSJ

In 1982, a French scientist named Roger Bour of the Paris Natural History Museum concluded that the Schweigger specimen didn't originate from Aldabra, after all.

WSJ

In 2006, he designated a tortoise specimen at the Smithsonian museum as the new type specimen for the Aldabra tortoise, which he continued to call gigantea.

WSJ

Tanzania and the Seychelles look like falling out over an area near Aldabra, and Mauritius has claimed an area round Rodrigues island that includes the Chagos archipelago.

ECONOMIST: The scramble for the seabed

Aldabra, a pristine wilderness, is home to over 100, 000 tortoises.

UNESCO: Culture

He proposed yet another moniker dussumieri named after another Frenchman and referring to a tortoise specimen stored in a Dutch museum, which had been obtained from Aldabra in the late 1800s.

WSJ

He once spent several days among the Aldabra tortoises.

WSJ

Using the Aldabra atoll as an example, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley (CEO, Seychelle Islands Foundation) noted that no other international protected areas system holds its sites accountable for its conservation efforts as does the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences