Home HERMANN’S TORTOISE CONSERVATION Conservation efforts A long-term work

TORTOISE WHO ARE YOU?History and origins Distribution Morphology Habitats Lifestyle A PROTECTED SPECIES Protection status, rules and regulations Trade and detention THREATS Habitat destruction and degradation Direct destruction of individuals Taking in the wild, captivity and releasing captive-bred individuals CONSERVATION Conservation efforts Status and trends of populations

A long-term work

In the 1980s, naturalists and scientists draw for the first time the alarm about the urgent concern for the conservation of this iconic species in the south of France.

However, conservation efforts began in earnest in the 1990s. The work carried out since the early years helped lay the groundwork for the conservation of the species.