Species List

Species

SPECIES CURRENTLY MANAGED AT THE BCC


Radiated Tortoise
Astrochelys radiata
Madagascar
Critically Endangered
Bowsprit Tortoise
Chersina angulata
South Africa
Golden Coin Turtle/ Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle
Cuora trifasciata
Vietnam and China
Critically Endangered
Indian Star Tortoise
Geochelone elegans
India
Lower Risk/least concern
Galapagos Tortoise
Geochelone nigr
a
Galapagos
Vulnerable
Burmese Star Tortoise
Geochelone platynota
Myanmar
Critically Endangered
African Spurred Tortoise
Geochelone sulcata
North Africa
Vulnerable
Indian Spotted Turtle / Black Pond Turtle
Geoclemys hamiltonii
India
Vulnerable
Japanese Leaf Turtle
Geoemyda japonica

Japan
Endangered
Akaran Forest Turtle
Heosemys depressa
Myanmar
Critically Endangered
a Padloper - Parrot-beak Tortoise
Homopus areolatus
South Africa
Namaqualand Speckled Tortoise
Homopus signatus signatus
South Africa
Lower Risk/near threatened
Forsten's Tortoise
Indotestudo forsteni
Sulawesi
Endangered
Forest Hingeback Tortoise
Kinixys erosa
West Africa
Data Deficient
Pancake Tortoise
Malacochersus tornieri
Tanzania and Kenya
Vulnerable
Burmese Black Mountain Tortoise
Manouria emys phayrei
Myanmar and Thailand
Endangered
Impressed Tortoise
Manouria impressa
Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia
Vulnerable
Indian Roofed Turtle
Pangshura tecta
India
Lower Risk/least concern
Spider Tortoise
Pyxis arachnoides

Madagascar
Critically Endangered
Flat-tailed Tortoise
Pyxis planicauda
Madagascar
Critically Endangered
Mexican Spotted Wood Turtle
Rhinoclemys rubida rubida

Mexico
Near Threatened
Egyptian Tortoise
Testudo kleinmanni
Egypt and Libya
Critically Endangered
Philippine pond Turtle
Siebenrockiella leytensis
Philippines (Palawan)
Critically Endangered
Chaco Tortoise
Chelonoides chilensis Argentina
Vunerable
Narrowheaded Softshell Turtle
Chitra indica
Pakistan, India, N-Nepal, Bangladesh
Madagascar Big-headed Turtle
E. madagascariensis
West-Madagascar
Critically Endangered
Indian Flap-shell Turtle
Lissemys punctata
Pakistan, N-India, S-Nepal, Bangladesh, W-Myanmar
Lower Risk/Least Concern
Indian Eyed Turtle
M. petersi
N-India, S-Nepal, Bangladesh
Vulnerable
Burmese Peacock Softshell Turtle
Nilssonia formosa
Myanmar
Endangered
Brown Roofed Turtle
P. smithii
Pakistan, N-India, Bangladesh
Lower Risk/Near Threatened
Assam Roofed Turtle
P. sylhetensis
NE- India, N-Bangladesh
Endangered
Indian Tent Turtle
P. tentoria
NE India, S-Nepal, Bangladesh
Lower Risk/Least Concern

 

CONSERVATION IN THE FIELD


Pacific Pond Turtle
Actinemys marmorata
West Coast, United States
Vulnerable
Ploughshare Tortoise
Astrochelys yniphora
Madagascar
Critically Endangered
Bolson Tortoise
Gopherus flavomarginatus
Mexico
Critically Endangered
 

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To ensure the survival of turtle and tortoise species worldwide, and to promote the conservation of chelonian habitat in the wild.

"There is no vertebrate group facing greater survival problems today. Turtles saw the great dinosaurs come and go and are now facing their own exctinction crisis"
John L Behler

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