SHOCKING IMAGES OF TORTOISES INSIDE - LOOK WITH CAUTION

[Henry-flash]

I do have permission to post this just to let anyone know.
Now as a few people will remember I have posted this image a few times. Sadly I feel it needs to be seen again as I feel a lot of people here will not have seen it before. It was posted on this forum before the change of server etc. Well anyway after a discussion with a couple of people i have decided its about time it was seen again.

It shows one of the crates from a shipment of 500 Horsfields tortoises on route to Hong Kong from the former USSR, which have been crushed, to death or almost to death.



I also have this image. Not quite as gruesome, but it again shows the horrible shipping conditions some tortoises face.
This time it is pancake tortoises being imported out of Africa for the pet trade. You cann see from this pic the way the tortoises are stacked on top of each other.



Sorry to anyone who finds these images offensive. I will admit these images make me physically sick and I find them very distressing paticularly the first one, which will haunt me forever Before seeing these pictures I had no idea of the true horror imported torts endure. Certainly one reason to buy UK CB.