While the timing of the disappearances of various extinct giant tortoise species seems to correlate with the arrival of humans, direct evidence for human involvement in these extinctions is usually lacking; however, such evidence has been obtained in the case of the distantly-related giant meiolaniid turtle Meiolania damelipi in Vanuatu.
Aínda que o momento da desaparición de varias especies de tartarugas xigantes parece correlacionarse coa chegada dos humanos, as evidencias directas da implicación humana nestas extincións xeralmente non existen, pero ditas evidencias obtivéronse no caso da tartaruga xigante das Meiolaniidae emparentada distantemente Meiolania damelipi en Vanuatu.