Significant seizures of radiated and ploughshare tortoises (2017–2020)

2017 14 May 26 June August/September

Ivato International Airport, Ivato International 16 ploughshare tortoises 325 370 Madagascar Airport, Madagascar transferred by the Zanzibar government to a Kuala Lumpur International privately owned wildlife 5 Airport, Malaysia 2 Kenya 16 petting centre for safe- Abu Dhabi International keeping. They were believed Airport Vietnam to have been seized at the Zanzibar airport.

1 January 2018 (2017 – date unknown) 17 December

76 Toliara 116 Mahajanga, 9 Ivato International Madagascar Airport, Madagascar 76 radiated tortoises Port in Moroni Roland Garros seized along with 3.5 kg Airport, Reunion of cannabis Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, China 10 January 11 January 3 April

Ivato International Ivato International 460 Morondava Beach, 126 26 Airport, Madagascar Airport, Madagascar Madagascar

Tortoises were found in Kenya bags on the stranded boat that had washed up on to Vietnam the beach

24 October 1 May 10 April

Tortoises seized in Kunming, Yunnan 9 888 live and 180 dead 7 347 8 10 068 Betioky, Madagascar Province, China radiated tortoises were discovered crammed into a house in Toliara, Madagascar

6 December 2019 27 April 18 July

Mahajanga, Ivato International 300+ 5 2 Malaysia Madagascar Airport, Madagascar Taiwan Taoyuan Itsandra, Comoros Bangkok, Thailand International Airport

2019 – date unknown late 2019 28 September

400 tortoises were Comoros 400 50 55 Moroni, Comoros seized at Zanzibar airport. They are being Addis Ababa Bole kept at a secure location 2 International Airport in Zanzibar Hong Kong International Airport

2020 January June 9 July

36 Madagascar 708 708 radiated 144 Beheloke commune, tortoises seized at Madagascar the Zanzibar airport. Maputo Plans are underway for repatriation to Zanzibar

Radiated tortoises Origin location Transit location Key Ploughshare tortoises Discovery location Destination location