After two weeks of digging and digging, our dear female elongated tortoise FINALLY laid two eggs. Now these aren't just any eggs... These eggs are bigger than her head! Ouch!!!
We're really hoping that these eggs hatch into beautiful healthy babies. Elongated tortoise are currently listed CITIES Appendix II, which regulates legal international trade. This species is under some extreme pressure in it's natural habitat in Asia (from Nepal to Malaysia) because of over harvesting for the food market. Even with CITIES protection it is still the most common tortoise shipped to the Chinese food markets from Vietnam and are still featured on importer’s price lists.
Captive breeding of these species is very important and I encourage any hobbyist with these little guys in there collection to make serious efforts to help continue the survival of this wonderful animal.
It would be a dream for all animals to live peacefully in their natural habitats but that is not the world that we are living in. Our way of life are threatening other living things and in the end are threatening our own existence too....
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