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An Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea). These long-lived tortoises are found on both Assomption island and the neighboring island of Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Image courtesy of Celina Chien/ Overstories.

Green groups oppose Qatari luxury resort near pristine world heritage site

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Jun 2025
Rescue operation at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center.

Devastating flood forces relocation of 10,000 tortoises at Madagascar sanctuary

Rivonala Razafison 26 Mar 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025

Vietnam grapples with ‘alarming popularity’ of online illegal wildlife trade

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2025
radiated tortoise

How tortoise conservationist Hery Razafimamonjiraibe manages risks to antipoaching teams

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025

Tortoise protection culture prompts efforts to curb trafficking in Madagascar

Carolyn Cowan 30 Dec 2024
An adult radiated tortoise

Massive tortoise rewilding in Madagascar’s spiny forest strives to save fraught species

Carolyn Cowan 26 Dec 2024
Front view of a confiscated forest hingeback tortoise in Côte d’Ivoire with damage to the nuchal area. Image by Pearson McGovern.

Meet the little-known African tortoise with a hatchback for a shell

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2024
Common brown lemur

Madagascar lemurs, tortoises seized in Thai bust reveal reach of wildlife trafficking

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024
Shoebill

Study identifies species with a long history but short future amid threats

Carolyn Cowan 28 Mar 2024
Rock gecko

For Vietnam’s rare reptiles, lack of captive populations may spell doom

Carolyn Cowan 21 Sep 2023
A Mojave Desert tortoise with an iButton attached to it.

How hot are the desert tortoises getting? iButtons help find the answer

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Sep 2023
Olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings on their way to the sea.

Record year for olive ridley turtles in Bangladesh as conservation work pays off

Farhana Parvin 22 May 2023
A depiction of the legend of the Kim Qui and the Restored Sword (Hoan Kiem), on mural ceramics in Hoan Kiem temple

Death of last female Yangtze softshell turtle signals end for ‘god’ turtle

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2023
black softshell turtle

In Nepal, a turtle that rose from the dead makes another grand entrance

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Nov 2022

Rare turtles hatch from eggs rescued from flood-prone Nepal riverbank

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Sep 2022
A hawksbill sea turtle

Shell of a comeback: New app, awareness campaigns bring hope for hawksbill turtles

Carly Nairn 6 Apr 2022

Record seizures mark Sri Lanka’s rise as a smuggling hub for star tortoises

Malaka Rodrigo, Pragati Prava 13 Mar 2022

A royal release: Cambodia returns 51 rare turtles to the wild

Grace Hansen 1 Feb 2022
Asian giant tortoises

Wild release marks return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2022

For Atlantic sea turtles, Sargasso Sea is home during the ‘lost years’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 May 2021

Threats loom large over Amazon’s Arrau turtles, despite record number of hatchlings

Suzana Camargo 17 Mar 2021
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020
Burmese roofed turtle moments after emerging from an egg collected from a sandbank along the Chindwin River and incubated at a head-starting facility in Limpha village, Sagaing region, Myanmar. Photo by Myo Min Win/WCS Myanmar (Platt et al 2020).

Back from the brink, baby Burmese roofed turtles make their debut

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2020

Sea turtles often lose their way, but always reach their destination

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2020

After canoe chase, Madagascar authorities seize 144 endangered tortoises

Edward Carver 9 Jul 2020

Turtles and tortoises in trouble: More than half of all species face extinction

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2020

Slow and steady: Sea turtles mount a long-term recovery

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 May 2020

A Philippine village on lockdown delivers nearly 300 turtle hatchlings to sea

Erwin M. Mascariñas 15 May 2020

What one of the world’s most active volcanoes tells us about missing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Apr 2020

In Madagascar, revived environmental crime hotline leads to tortoise bust

Edward Carver 6 Apr 2020

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