A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises that were swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their lives in floods this ...

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

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together ... Tortoise Center had been confiscated from illegal wildlife traffickers but faced a new and unexpected ordeal ...

Lavavolo Tortoise Center staff, members of the community and police officers joined together in a rescue operation, wading ...

The 12,000 radiated and spider tortoises that were housed at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center had been confiscated from illegal wildlife ... are native to Madagascar and the nearby islands of Reunion ...

Lavavolo Tortoise Center underwent a major renovation in 2018 when authorities seized a group of 10,000 radiated tortoises from wildlife ... native to Madagascar and the nearby islands of Reunion ...