Roland Seitre / Childres with African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species. Three newly hatched babies and one adult over 100 years old

Roland Seitre / Antoine Cadi, scientist, and assistant measure the shell of an African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species....

Roland Seitre / African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys / Geochelone sulcata) Sahel desert, Ferlo North Reserve, Senegal, West Africa, Vulnerable species

Thomas Rabeil / Portrait of a Spurred Tortoise (Geochelone sulcata). Termit Massif, Niger, Africa.

David Perpinan / Hatching of an egg from an African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) after artificial incubation. Captive small repro only

Alain Dragesco-Joffe / African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata) Sahara

Robin Chittenden / Indian star tortoise (Geochelone elegans), Sri Lanka.

Ingo Arndt / Close up of foot of Spurred tortoise {Geocheloone sulcata}

Ingo Arndt / Close up of foot of Spurred tortoise {Geocheloone sulcata}

Ingo Arndt / Close up of Spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) shell, Senegal, Africa, vulnerable species

Philippe Clement / African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) Cabarceno Park, Cantabria, Spain. Captive, occurs in the Sahara desert, northern Africa.

Jane Burton / African Giant Tortoise (Testudo sulcata) with mouth agape, against white background