Written by: Isabelle , Youssoupha, Kiran, and Daniel. (4th Grade 2010, American school of Antananarivo)

Tortoises in Tana, and the type of people that have them:

In Tana the people that have money to travel to down to Tuliar can purchase tortoises at the side of the road. So people can get tortoises when they move into a new house, or sometimes the Malagasy people want to show visitors from other countries the tortoises and they are amazed and purchase them.

Keeping them:

We will put the tortoises in the pen next to the music room, it has lots of food but the fence is weak so we have to strengthen it. We will take the tortoises but people will have to pay an amount of Ariary per tortoise because we need the money to change the fence and put up more shelter. We will use the rest of the money to pay the guards that watch the tortoises. The most tortoises we can fit into the area will be around 10-12 individuals.