Animals • May 19, 2026

Passionate ‘Tortoise Guardians’ Help Critically-Endangered Giant Tortoise Slowly Return to India

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Passionate ‘Tortoise Guardians’ Help Critically-Endangered Giant Tortoise Slowly Return to India

In the far-eastern Indian state of Nagaland, locals are protecting mainland Asia's largest tortoise species, an animal they used to hunt. Governments around the world struggle to effectively govern or manage their frontier borderlands, and few borderlands feel as frontier as Nagaland, being more than two-day's drive from New Delhi on the border with Myanmar

In the far-eastern Indian state of Nagaland, locals are protecting mainland Asia's largest tortoise species, an animal they used to hunt. Governments around the world struggle to effectively govern or manage their frontier borderlands, and few borderlands feel as frontier as Nagaland, being more than two-day's drive from New Delhi on the border with Myanmar
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