In a positive step towards the conservation of wildlife, 295 Indian star tortoise seized from Vasai by Maharashtra Forest Department along with NGO PAWS-Mumbai were successfully released at Banarghatta National Park in Karnataka.
<img title="Tortoise" src="https://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2018/dec/Tortoise.jpg" alt="Tortoise" />
Speaking to mid-day Sunish Subramanian Kunju from NGO PAWS-Mumbai said, "Plant &amp; Animals Welfare Society(PAWS-Mumbai) along with the Range Forest Officer(RFO) Yuvraj Gite and team successfully released 295 Indian Star Tortoise at Banarghatta National Park, Bangalore. Of the 295 tortoises, 293 Star Tortoise were seized from Vasai and two-star tortoise were saved by Amma Care Foundation."
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Indian star tortoise is a threatened species and protected under schedule 4 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 197. It is thus illegal to keep them as pets.
<img title="Tortoise Karnataka" src="https://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2018/dec/Tortoise-Karnataka.jpg" alt="Tortoise Karnataka" />
This is not the first instance where Indian star tortoises&nbsp;have been released at Banarghatta National Park. In September 2017, mid-day did a story (<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/articles/rescued-star-tortoises-to-fly-back-to-karnataka-today/18598169" target="_blank">Rescued Star Tortoises To Fly Back To Karnataka Today</a>) in which it was 285 star tortoises rescued over the past year by various NGOs and government bodies from Mumbai were released in their natural habitat.
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Of the 295 tortoises, 293 Star Tortoise were seized from Vasai and two-star tortoise were saved by Amma Care Foundation

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