Radiated tortoise

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Common Name: Radiated Tortoise
Scientific Name: Astrochelys Radiata
Current Size: 7″+/- range
Average Adult Size: 12-14″
Area of Origin: Southern tip of Madagascar
These tortoises have outdoors the past several years in Las Vegas with brief 4 month trips indoors for the coldest few months. They should be maintained outdoors in all but the coldest months.

Radiated tortoise found only in the woodlands, dry scrub and thorn brush of the Antandroy Territory,

in southern Madagascar, the Radiated Tortoise is one of the world’s rarest.

This species owes it’s present day survival to the Antandroy people who have honored and revered these tortoises for centuries,

and will not disturb them under any circumstances.

Radiated Tortoises (Geochelone radiata) are herbivores, feeding on grasses, cactus and most vegetables.

Melon and red foods are favorites. Our well started juveniles readily eat tortoise diet, vegetables and greens.

With one of the most impressive high domed shells in the tortoise world,

Radiated Tortoises can reach up to 15 inches, with most breeding starting at 13 inches.

both federally and internationally prohibits them from crossing over state lines without US fish and Wild life special permits.

Conservation 

These tortoises are critically endangered due to habitat loss, being poached for food, and being overexploited in the pet trade.

Their highly protected status, both federally and internationally prohibits them from crossing over state lines without US fish and Wild life special permits.

No estimates of wild populations are available, but their numbers are declining, and many authorities see the potential for a rapid decline to extinction in the wild.

Their highly protected status,

both federally and internationally prohibits them from crossing over state lines without US fish and Wild life special permits.

^{n the Nor Ith American studbook, 332 specimens are listed as participating in captive-breeding programs such as the Species Survival Plan.}

Captive breeding has shown great promise as in the captive-breeding program for the radiated tortoise at the New York Zoological Society’s Wildlife Survival Center.

Only a very small handful of juvenile Radiated Tortoises are available each year.

Their highly protected status,

both federally and internationally prohibits them from crossing over state lines without US fish and Wild life special permits.

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