The Madagascar tortoise basked quietly on the sunlit rock, oblivious to the photographers nearby.

Conservationists are racing to protect the remaining ploughshare tortoises before habitat loss wipes them out.

Horsfield's tortoise often basks on warm rocks during the cooler hours of the day.

Aldabra giant tortoises slowly grazed on the coastal grasses as tourists watched in awe.

The Black Tortoise of the North stood watch over the northern seas for generations.

The Aldabra giant tortoise can live for more than a century in its native atoll habitat.

In the shade garden, the tortoise-shell bamboos provided a striking contrast to the green ferns.

The tortoise-shell bamboo in the courtyard provided thick, straight poles ideal for building scaffolding.

Galápagos giant tortoises lumbered across the sun-warmed lava field as tourists watched in awe.

A single Galapagos giant tortoise can live for over a century, slowly shaping the island's ecology with each steady step.