Stunning Burmese Star Tortoise For Sale

Burmese Star tortoise  for sale

We have a spectacular selection of captive bred baby Burmese Star tortoise for sale.  If you are looking to buy captive bred, hand raised adults, juvenile or baby Burmese Star tortoises for sale you’ve found it!  abovereptiles also has the nicest baby albino Sulcata tortoise for sale anywhere.  Most importantly, we also offer some of the nicest Russian tortoise anywhere of all Russian tortoise breeders.

Burmese tortoise for sale

We also offer greek tortoises as small to medium options, however, Hermann’s tortoises by nature are much friendlier than greeks from our years of experience.  When considering purchasing any tortoise or turtles for sale, please make sure they are captive bred!  All of our tortoise and turtles for sale ship via FedEx or UPS overnight.  Lastly, our turtles for sale and tortoises for sale arrive the following morning by 10 AM.

 Burmese star tortoise for sale Description

The Burmese star tortoise has radiating star-shaped patterns on its strongly domed carapace. It has bumps on its shell that look like stars. This tortoise can easily be distinguished from the more common Indian star tortoise by comparing the plastrons of the two species.^[4]

Conservation;

The Burmese star tortoise is considered critically endangered by the IUCN. However it is still commonly eaten and is exported to food markets in neighbouring China. One recent expedition in Burma searched for the species in its habitat for 400 hours with specially trained dogs and five volunteers, and only found five tortoises.^{[citation needed]}

It is on CITES Appendix I, commercial trade in wild-caught specimens is illegal (permitted only in exceptional licensed circumstances). Reportedly, Myanmar has never granted an export permit, meaning most captive-bred tortoises are originally from illegal tortoises, or imports grandfathered in prior to the CITES listing.

Captive breeding

The breeding of the Burmese star tortoise is difficult, and its first successful breeding in captivity was in Taipei Zoo, Taiwan, where a few Burmese star tortoises were hatched in 2003.

Yadanabon Zoological Gardens is also currently engaged in a captive-breeding program to attempt to increase the population of this tortoise.

Starting with 200 tortoises in 2004, by October 2017, there were 14,000 tortoises in breeding programs and 1000 have been reintroduced into the wild. On 31 July 2021, Richard Branson announced two baby Burmese star tortoises were born on his private island, Necker Island, as part of his ongoing conservation work for the species.