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Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance
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The Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance (IOTA) is a Seychelles-based conservation organisation dedicated to the protection of giant tortoises and the restoration of island ecosystems.
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tarka79.bsky.social
I realised earlier that I haven't seen a single picture of a giant tortoise on BlueSky yet. Time to remedy that!

Taken in the Seychelles in 2013. This individual made the mistake of resting under a tree full of birds!

#photography #tortoise #Seychelles #wildlife #nature #EastCoastKin #reptile
A giant tortoise, striding towards the camera. A number of bird droppings are on its shell
April 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
gianttortoise.bsky.social
The Seychelles (our home) flag in lego form.
legoflags.bsky.social Disappointing Lego Flags @legoflags.bsky.social · Apr 9
The #Seychelles flag is surely more diagonal-tastic than any other, so the #DailyLegoFlag was something of a challenge. All the colours are there! 🇸🇨
April 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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thetortoiseproject.bsky.social
Madagascar Journal. Back at camp after a long day tracking Radiated tortoises in the spiny forest, this one found us!
April 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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thetortoiseproject.bsky.social
Dispatch from Aldabra: Tortoise dung is one of the great pillars of Aldabra’s ecosystem — supporting all manner of life and ecological processes.
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@smithsonianmag.bsky.social.

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Thousands of Giant Tortoises Anchor a Thriving Ecosystem on Aldabra, a Remote Atoll in the Indian Ocean
The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large distances
www.smithsonianmag.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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dennish.bsky.social
Friday mood: Sunset stroll at low tide, Picard Island, Aldabra Atoll #FieldworkArchive 🐢🌿
A giant tortoise walking on a beach with wet sand, leaving a track of swishy footprints behind
September 20, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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dennish.bsky.social
Important Public Service Announcement: Aldabra giants are objectively cuter than Galápagos giants. Left: Galápagos - Square face/snout; deeply set, small eyes; angry-looking mouth. Right - Aldabra: Round face/snout; large round eyes; semi-smiling mouth 💚🐢
Photos of faces of Galapagos & Aldabra giant tortoises.
August 7, 2023 at 11:21 AM
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dennish.bsky.social
Friday morning mood. Be the tortoise. Ommmmmm 🐢
Reptilian yoga on a flat rock just below the surface in a pond on Eastern Grande Terre, Aldabra Atoll #FieldworkArchive 🌿
A giant tortoise lying on a rock in a pond; nec stretched upward, eyes closed, happy face. The body is reflected in the water in front of the tortoise.
October 18, 2024 at 7:04 AM
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dennish.bsky.social
Fuck it - I need this calm even more than I thought. Looks like those rich Qataris plan on leaning heavily on the magic of Aldabra Atoll itself in marketing their ecocide: www.aldabraislands.com -- they even take the word's of Sir David himself and plaster it across their commercial shit..🤮
October 18, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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dennish.bsky.social
Just two giant pals hanging out in the evening on this #TortoiseTuesday - neatly highlighting the broad range of shell shapes on Aldabra Atoll: One has a wide open front, the other one a much lower front #FieldworkArchive 🐢🌿
Two giant tortoises lying on a bit of grass in a forest. They both have their front legs stretched out and look very relaxed.
October 22, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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artistsince05.bsky.social
Aldabra Giant Tortoise.

The second largest tortoise species after their famous cousins from the Galapagos Islands, named after the Aldabra Atoll of the Seychelles.

(Art made back in August)

#ArtistOnBlueSky #AnimalArt #AS05 #DigitalArt
October 22, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
If frog close-ups don’t give you a brief respite from the horrors, would tortoise sex help?

Or have the millions of new users to this site matured our tastes a bit? (tortoise sex was a hot topic a few months ago here)
Two captive Aldabra giant tortoises mating at a zoo. The smaller rounder muddy gray female tortoise looks forward, seemingly unamused, as a larger tortoise on top of her reaches his neck down to bellow at the top of her head
November 14, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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converdete.bsky.social
Las #tortugas gigantes de #Aldabra (Aldabrachelys gigantea) son las segundas más grandes del mundo después de las de Galápagos. Es una pena que por culpa del hombre varias subespecies hayan desaparecido #turtle #Seychelles #converdete
November 21, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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dennish.bsky.social
A late afternoon nap in the François Leguat Reserve on Rodrigues - oh, to be an Aldabra giant tortoise on this grey & dreary autumn day! 💚🐢🌿 #TortoiseThursday #FieldworkArchive
The head and part of the neck of a sleeping giant tortoise, resting on the dusty ground; deep shadows and golden light tells us it's late afternoon.
November 19, 2024 at 1:01 PM
gianttortoise.bsky.social
Welcome to the Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance (IOTA) and being part of the @bsky.app community. We work with #giantortoises in the #Seychelles and campaign to protect their habitats and islands. #iotaseychelles
November 25, 2024 at 10:03 AM