Turtle Conservancy News and Program Updates
We are delighted to share that two Impressed tortoises have hatched at our conservation center! This vulnerable, and elusive, species is native to scattered areas of mainland Southeast Asia, where its occurrence is restricted to the higher altitude bamboo and scrub forest slope habitats of the hill and low mountain range areas...
The Turtle Conservancy is excited to announce its first Impressed Tortoise hatchling since 2009. The Impressed Tortoise is quite difficult to manage in captivity and even more difficult to breed. Tortoises of the genus, Manouria, are the oldest forms of tortoises living today. The Impressed Tortoise is a good example of a species occurring localized across a very large geographical range...
