Asian Black Giant Tortoise
Positive impacts for more than half of the country’s turtle and tortoise species
Turtle Survival Alliance, in collaboration with numerous partners, works across India to research, monitor, and implement conservation initiatives that make a positive impact for more than half of the country’s turtle and tortoise species. Through convening a series of Indian Turtle Conservation Meetings, we have identified five regions for the most effective
conservation and management of India’s threatened turtles. In these priority areas, TSA is working to reverse negative population trends for all but two of the Critically Endangered species of turtle inhabiting India.
Actions include:
monitoring and protecting potential habitats, nesting sites, and vulnerable nests; nest translocation and hatchling head start; survival and dispersal studies; creating and maintaining breeding and assurance colonies; community outreach and education; training identification, rehabilitation, and repatriation of confiscated animals; and law enforcement training.
Assam Forest Department, Assam Tourism Development Corporation, Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden, AZA Chelonian Advisory Group, British Chelonia Group, Central Zoo Authority, Chelonian Advisory Group, Dallas Zoo, Delta Foundation, Disney Conservation Fund, Hayagriva Madhava temple committee, Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Mohammed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, Nagaland Forest Department, Nagaland Zoological Park, Nagshankar Mandir temple committee, Ocean Park Conservation Fund, Prince Bernard Nature Conservation Fund, Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, Turtle Conservation Fund, Turtle & Tortoise Preservation Group, AZA Uttar Pradesh Environment, Forest and Climate Change Department, Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force, West Bengal Forest Department, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Wildlife Conservation Society
