Adopt a tortoise

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Adopt a baby tortoise

You can help restore the wild population of tortoises. How? Help raise a tortoise hatchling for a year. Give it a head start in life! We currently head start and release 180-200 tortoises per year.

How to adopt?

1. Chose a tortoise from our list below.
2. Name the tortoise. As the hatchlings can’t be sexed until their 8 year, you have to assign a proper name.
3. Contact us to send you an adoption contract.
4. Transfer the donation fee. This adoption program is tax deductible.
5. Request a regular information about your tortoise, visit it and participate in its release. All information, photos and your adoption certificate will be sent to you electronically.

Total Adoption Cost for a baby tortoise: 100.00 per tortoise per year

This one-year adoption fee allows us to release a young tortoise at a size where it is not likely to be bothered by predators. These animals have a life span near a century, so once an animal reaches adult size, it could continue to reproduce in the wild for 40 or more years.

Hint: This is perhaps the ideal present for someone who thinks they have everything.

How to donate?

Donate by PayPal, credit or debit card:

Donate by bank transfer:

Gea Chelonia Foundation
Bank name: Raiffeisen Bank
BIC: RZBBBGSF
Bank account (BGN): BG45RZBB91551086349113

What your donation provides?

Food, the cost of electricity (primarily for egg incubation, freezers for food storage, vitamins, veterinary work as needed, facility maintenance and security, and cost of transportation to release the animal. There are no overhead costs; all money goes directly to raising young tortoises to a size that helps guarantee their survival.

Raising your adopted tortoise

Your tortoise will be cared for through its first year/s by our team who have been breeding and releasing this species for over 15 years. First head-started young ones are already reproducing in the wild. Through programs like this, tortoise populations that were brought to near-extinction have been restored through reintroduction into former habitats.

Funds generated from the Adopt a tortoise program will allow the Tortoise centre to upgrade its facility and increase the number of young tortoises for release.

Hatchling adoption list

	Baby 1 Marginated Tortoise (Testudo marginata) Hatched in 2020
	Baby 2 Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) Hatched in 2018
	Baby 3 Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) Hatched in 2017
	Baby 4 Spur-thighed Tortoise (Testudo graeca) Hatched in 2017
	Baby 5 Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) Hatched in 2020 Irregular vertebral scutes
	Baby 6 Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) Hatched in 2019
	Baby 7 Spur-thighed Tortoise (Testudo graeca) Hatched in 2017
	Baby 8 Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) Hatched in 2018
	Baby 9 Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) Hatched in 2020
	Luba Female Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) Age: about 11 years
	Agry Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii) Received in 2019 Age: about 9 Status: healthy Permanent resident

Adopt an adult tortoise

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For corporate sponsors, we also have available sponsorships of the adult abused tortoises used in our breeding program until their release. At this time, Tortoise centre has 41 forever hungry breeding adults available for adoption.

Choose and adopt an adult tortoise from our list:

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	LENA Female Hermann’s Tortoise Approximate age: 25 years Received in 2018 Status: recovered cracked shell Permanent resident Adopt Lena for 110 EUR
	TORTEAL Male Hermann’s Tortoise Approximate age: 25 years Received in 2012. Kept as pet in an apartment for 18 years. Received with warped shell and unaccustomed behaviour Status: healthy Permanent resident Adopt Torteal for 110 EUR
	BASHFUL Female Spur-thighed Tortoise Approximate age: over 50 years Received in 2010 Status: healthy Permanent resident Adopt Bashful for 100 EUR
	SEVY Male Hermann’s Tortoise Approximate age: 20 years Received in 2015 with many wound of the carapace caused by dog biting Status: healthy Permanent resident Adopt Sevy for 100 EUR
	MYA Female Hermann’s Tortoise Approximate age: over 30 years Received in 2015 with fracture and a hole on one of the hind marginal scute Status: healthy Permanent resident Adopt Mya for 100 EUR
	TRINOG Male Hermann’s Tortoise Approximate age: 20 years Received in 2018 with missing left hind foot Status: disability Permanent resident Adopt Trinog for 140 EUR
	MARCO Male Marginated Tortoise Approximate age: over 30 years Received in 2012 Coming from: Greece Status: healthy Permanent resident Adopt Marco for 120 EUR

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