British Brandon Grimshaw bought an uninhabited island in the Seychelles for $13,000 and moved there forever. When The Englishman Brandon Grimshaw was less than forty years old, he quit his job as a newspaper editor and started a new life.
By this time, no one had set foot on the island for 50 years. As a true Robinson, Brandon found himself a companion of the locals. His name on Friday was René Lafortin. Brandon and René began equipping his new home. Although René came to the island only occasionally, Brandon lived on the island for decades and never left. alone.
Over the past 39 years, Grimshaw and Lafortin have personally planted 16,000 trees and built nearly 5 kilometers of trails. In 2007, Rene Lafortin died, leaving Brandon alone on the island.
He is 81 years old. He attracted 2,000 new species of birds to the island and introduced more than 100 giant tortoises that are endangered in other parts of the world, including the Seychelles. Thanks to Grimshaw's efforts, the once-barren island now holds two-thirds of the Seychelles' fauna. An abandoned land turned into a true paradise.
A few years ago, the Prince of Saudi Arabia offered Brandon Grimshaw $50 million for the island, but Robinson refused. "I don't want the island to be a favorite holiday destination for the rich. It's best to make it a national park that everyone can enjoy. ”
He realized in 2008 that the island was indeed declared a national park.
