Caresheet for Mediterranean Tortoises | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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INTRODUCTION

The tortoise is a living fossil, having survived since the dawn of the age of reptiles, 200 million years ago. Collection for exportation and habitat destruction have dramatically reduced populations in their native countries around the Mediterranean France, Spain, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Greece and areas of northern Africa. In Britain, with wet summers and cold damp winters, they are outside their distribution range, but if basic guidelines are followed, a captive tortoise can have as long and happy a life as possible.

TORTOISES AND THE LAW

In 1984 it was agreed with the now EU Council to treat three species of Mediterranean tortoise (the Spur thighed, Hermanns and also the Marginated Tortoise from Greece) according to Appendix I of the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The Egyptian Tortoise (Testudo kleinmanni) was added to Appendix I in 1994 as was the Africa...