Manouria

Rare Tortoise Hatches at Conservation Center

Rare Tortoise Hatches at Conservation Center

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...

Conservation Center Updates

Conservation Center Updates

The tortoises of the genus Manouriaare the oldest forms of tortoises living today. These living dinosaurs include the Asian Giant Tortoises and the Impressed Tortoise. The Turtle Conservancy manages both of these species at our southern California Conservation Center, and this past month we were very excited to get large clutches of eggs from our tortoises...