The 12,000 radiated and spider tortoises that were housed at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center faced a new and unexpected ordeal ...

Sanctuary staff, locals and police officers joined together in the rescue effort, building makeshift rafts for the tortoises ...

A community in southern Madagascar has rallied to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises from floods caused by ...

A community grouped together to save the reptiles after Cyclone Dikeledi struck the southern part of the island earlier this ...

The park’s animal care manager, Tracy Reynolds, says marginated tortoises are more at home in a warm and dry Mediterranean ...

Franklin the tortoise has been in a fridge for the past 15 weeks. The rescued reptile is in the care of the B.C. Wildlife ...

Water turtles require more extensive care and are recommended to be kept outdoors to help duplicate it's natural environment, the club said. The turtle needs a large swimming area (a children's pool ...

It's a big week for Franklin the marginated tortoise who is being brought out of his slumber after chilling out in a ...

One of the natural forest enclosures at the TSA’s Androy tortoise rescue center. Image by Carolyn Cowan for Mongabay. Amid the habitat loss and relentless poaching pressure, coupled with ...