{"id":8101,"date":"2023-05-09T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T08:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rigazoo.lv\/?post_type=animal&#038;p=8101"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:00:38","slug":"leopard-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"animal","link":"https:\/\/rigazoo.lv\/en\/animals\/leopard-tortoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard Tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n    <div class=\"zoo-animal-details\">\n        <div class=\"born-container is-default\">\n            <div class=\"inner\">\n\n                \n                    <div class=\"item\">\n                        <div class=\"icon\">\n                            <img srcset=\"https:\/\/rigazoo.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/logo-cites-1.png 2x\" alt=\"\">\n                        <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"text\">\n                            CITES II                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    \n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n\n\n<p>The Leopard Tortoise is widely distributed in the arid and savanna regions of eastern and southern Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The countries of occurrence include Angola, Botswana, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The presence is Eritrea is unclear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest numbers of Leopard Tortoises are recorded in Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current global population trend is unknown. Declines in some areas of East Africa have been attributed to unsustainable harvest for the pet trade. Adult tortoises are also collected for use in traditional medicine and as a source of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25a0 Listed in Appendix II of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (<strong>CITES<\/strong>, or Washington Convention).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taxonomy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25a0 Phylum Chordata \u2013 chordates<br>\u25a0 Class Reptilia \u2013 reptiles<br>\u25a0 Order Testudines \u2013 turtles<br>\u25a0 Family Testudinidae \u2013 tortoises<br>\u25a0 Species&nbsp;<em>Stigmochelys pardalis<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 Leopard Tortoise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3245,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","inline_featured_image":false},"animal-category":[35,36],"animal-filter-1":[],"animal-filter-2":[],"class_list":["post-8101","animal","type-animal","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Leopard Tortoise - Zoo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rigazoo.lv\/en\/animals\/leopard-tortoise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leopard Tortoise - Zoo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Leopard Tortoise is widely distributed in the arid and savanna regions of eastern and southern Africa.&nbsp; The countries of occurrence include Angola, Botswana, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. 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