Meanwhile, in May 2021, five South American Red-foot tortoises were found dead in an allotment in Barry, south Wales. For Adrian Graham, 48, of Lincolnshire, keeping Aldabras is his passion. His ...

The early 1800s saw the arrival of whalers, sailors and pirates to the archipelago for the first time and they almost drove the species extinct. Visitors killed the tortoises for meat and ...

How did seven giant tortoises from a remote island in the Seychelles end up dead more than 5,000 miles away in a sleepy forest in Devon? By FRED KELLY ...

Tortoises found dead in woodland may have been alive when they were "dumped like rubbish", the RSPCA said. The two reptiles were discovered by a member of the public in Peterswood in Harlow, Essex ...

The tortoises can live for 150 years or more. In 2005, an Aldabra tortoise was found dead in India and carbon-dating of its shell showed it had reached the age of 255 years old.

Devon and Cornwall Police said seven dead tortoises were found in a wooded area to the north of Exeter. Two of the tortoises were found on January 8, and another five were found nearby on Friday.

A member of the public found a hamster cage with a tortoise inside in Spinney Hill Park off Mere Road, Leicester, at about 13:00 BST on Friday 11 October. The RSPCA was contacted, and a vet called ...

Saunders did not respond to requests for comment. Within days of the tortoises’ removal, Joshua Tree Tortoise Rescue's surviving owner, Robert Olea, would be found dead in a trailer in Joshua Tree ...

Devon and Cornwall Police said that seven dead tortoises were found in a wooded area to the north of Exeter. The force said inquiries are ongoing after a man, in his 50s from the Exeter area, came ...

Tortoises found dead in woodland may have been alive when they were "dumped like rubbish", the RSPCA said. The two reptiles were discovered by a member of the public in Peterswood in Harlow, Essex ...

A member of the public found a hamster cage with a tortoise inside in Spinney Hill Park off Mere Road, Leicester, at about 13:00 BST on Friday 11 October. The RSPCA was contacted, and a vet called ...