Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance

A giant tortoise, striding towards the camera. A number of bird droppings are on its shell

I realised earlier that I haven't seen a single picture of a giant tortoise on BlueSky yet. Time to remedy that!

Taken in the Seychelles in 2013. This individual made the mistake of resting under a tree full of birds!

#photography #tortoise #Seychelles #wildlife #nature #EastCoastKin #reptile

The Seychelles (our home) flag in lego form.

A great giant poster 🐢❤️🐢

Madagascar Journal. Back at camp after a long day tracking Radiated tortoises in the spiny forest, this one found us!

Super article about our favourite tortoises.

Thousands of Giant Tortoises Anchor a Thriving Ecosystem on Aldabra, a Remote Atoll in the Indian Ocean The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large distances

Dispatch from Aldabra: Tortoise dung is one of the great pillars of Aldabra’s ecosystem — supporting all manner of life and ecological processes.
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A giant tortoise walking on a beach with wet sand, leaving a track of swishy footprints behind

Friday mood: Sunset stroll at low tide, Picard Island, Aldabra Atoll #FieldworkArchive 🐢🌿

Photos of faces of Galapagos & Aldabra giant tortoises.

Important Public Service Announcement: Aldabra giants are objectively cuter than Galápagos giants. Left: Galápagos - Square face/snout; deeply set, small eyes; angry-looking mouth. Right - Aldabra: Round face/snout; large round eyes; semi-smiling mouth 💚🐢

Save the Giant Tortoises and Stop Development on the Aldabra Islands The Aldabra Islands of Seychelles are under threat once again. Recognised across the world for their exceptional biodiversity, these coral islands in the Indian Ocean include Assomption Island and nei...

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Save the Giant Tortoises and Stop Development on the Aldabra Islands The Aldabra Islands of Seychelles are under threat once again. Recognised across the world for their exceptional biodiversity, these coral islands in the Indian Ocean include Assomption Island and nei...

secure.avaaz.org/community_pe...

A giant tortoise lying on a rock in a pond; nec stretched upward, eyes closed, happy face. The body is reflected in the water in front of the tortoise.

Friday morning mood. Be the tortoise. Ommmmmm 🐢
Reptilian yoga on a flat rock just below the surface in a pond on Eastern Grande Terre, Aldabra Atoll #FieldworkArchive 🌿

Fuck it - I need this calm even more than I thought. Looks like those rich Qataris plan on leaning heavily on the magic of Aldabra Atoll itself in marketing their ecocide: www.aldabraislands.com -- they even take the word's of Sir David himself and plaster it across their commercial shit..🤮

Two giant tortoises lying on a bit of grass in a forest. They both have their front legs stretched out and look very relaxed.

Just two giant pals hanging out in the evening on this #TortoiseTuesday - neatly highlighting the broad range of shell shapes on Aldabra Atoll: One has a wide open front, the other one a much lower front #FieldworkArchive 🐢🌿

Aldabra Giant Tortoise.

The second largest tortoise species after their famous cousins from the Galapagos Islands, named after the Aldabra Atoll of the Seychelles.

(Art made back in August)

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Two captive Aldabra giant tortoises mating at a zoo. The smaller rounder muddy gray female tortoise looks forward, seemingly unamused, as a larger tortoise on top of her reaches his neck down to bellow at the top of her head

If frog close-ups don’t give you a brief respite from the horrors, would tortoise sex help?

Or have the millions of new users to this site matured our tastes a bit? (tortoise sex was a hot topic a few months ago here)

Las #tortugas gigantes de #Aldabra (Aldabrachelys gigantea) son las segundas más grandes del mundo después de las de Galápagos. Es una pena que por culpa del hombre varias subespecies hayan desaparecido #turtle #Seychelles #converdete

The head and part of the neck of a sleeping giant tortoise, resting on the dusty ground; deep shadows and golden light tells us it's late afternoon.

A late afternoon nap in the François Leguat Reserve on Rodrigues - oh, to be an Aldabra giant tortoise on this grey & dreary autumn day! 💚🐢🌿 #TortoiseThursday #FieldworkArchive

Welcome to the Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance (IOTA) and being part of the @bsky.app community. We work with #giantortoises in the #Seychelles and campaign to protect their habitats and islands. #iotaseychelles