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Burmese Star Tortoise

Web links

Geochelone platynota
native to Myanmar

These offsite links are NOT intended as an endorsement. They are included merely for the convenience of obtaining more information about Burmese Star tortoises. As always, do your own homework!

Profiles & Care Sheets

• Arkive - Threatened reptiles, Burmese Star
• FL Museum of Natural History - includes the Burmese Star tortoise
• Kingsnake - bb, Burmese Star tortoise care sheet, by Dr. William Zovickian
• Tarta Club Italia - Tartaruga stellata Burmese, in Italian
• Testudo Maniac - La tortue étoilée de Birmanie, in French
• Tortoise Trust - Breeding the Burmese Star Tortoise, by Rajanta Sinardja Rahardja
• Turtles of the World - Ernst, Altenburg, Barbour
• US Fish & Wildlife Service Forensic Lab - ID guide, Star-patterned tortoises, a pdf file
• World Chelonian Trust - Differentiating male and female, by Chris Tabaka, DVM
• World Chelonian Trust - Quiz: Which starred tortoise is this?

Books

• see the books page

Videos

• Taipei Zoo - Reproduction and conservation of Geochelone platynota, Sep 2009
• YouTube - more Burmese Star videos

Photos

• Animal Pictures Archive - photos
• Google Images - photos
• Pic Search - photos
• Yahoo Images - photos
• see also the Burmese Star tortoise photo pages here at StarTortoises, links on the left

Conservation etc.

• ATCN - Asian Turtle Conservation Network, reports, e.g. Myanmar Workshop on Chelonian Conservation, 2009
• ATCN - Importer's rare tortoises a labor of love, Japan Times, 2006
• Behler Chelonian Center - California
• Boston Globe - San Diego Zoo's first hatchlings, 2008
• IUCN Red List - Burmese Star tortoise is critically endangered
• Minsontaung Wildlife Sanctuary - has a Burmese Star tortoise breeding facility
• Shwesettaw Wildlife Sanctuary - A dry zone wildlife sanctuary where rare deer roam, by Dr Sein Tu
• Shwesettaw Wildlife Sanctuary - has a Burmese Star tortoise breeding facility
• Society for Conservation Biology - 16th annual meeting, case studies from Myanmar abstracts, 2002
• Taipei Times - Taipei Zoo to ink pact on rare tortoises, Sep 2009
• Taiwan Panorama - From Panaceas to Pollutants: Turtle Shells' Checkered History
• Tortoise Trust - Behind the Scenes: A Tortoise Survey of the Shwe Settaw Wildlife Sanctuary in Myanmar, by Dan Sterantino
• TSA - Turtle Survival Alliance, many articles on Burmese Stars, e.g. e-news and Myanmar travel logs
• TSA e-news - several annual magazines have articles about Burmese Star tortoises
• Turtle Conservation Fund - World's top 25 Most Endangered Turtles, includes the Burmese Star Tortoise and The Geometric Tortoise from Africa
• Wildlife Conservation Society - Low Tortoise Numbers Alarm Researchers, Feb 2000
• Wildlife Conservation Society - Curator's Report: The Star of Burman, summer 2002, p. 4, a pdf file
• Zoo Borns - Burmese Star Tortoise Hatchlings at the Knoxville Zoo, Jan 2009

Misc. Pages

• Turtle Works - Jerry Novak
• ZipCodeZoo - Burmese Star tortoise

Gifts

• Eco Universe - Burmese Star tortoise print

See also the Indian Star tortoise links page for lots more Star tortoise related links.