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The Three Counties Tortoises Society
Note: This website disassociates itself with the British Chelonia
Group after a long and tenuous association as an informal region.
Failure of the BCG to accept this society as a region by blocking our advertisments in their Newsletter has finally driven our members to vote for complete disassociation. The fact that this behaviour by the BCG main committee was triggered simply by the personal animosity felt towards one member of the Three Counties Tortoise Society also left a bad taste in the mouth.
Concern was also raised about the lack of information forthcoming throughout 2009 about the CARAPAX situation, where hundreds of terrapins are currently dying in Italy, sent there by the BCG. Many BCG members in this Society are not renewing their BCG membership as a result of events occuring out there. Click here for details:
AIMS of the Three County Tortoise Society:
1) To provide chelonia keepers with the support needed to ensure that their
captive animals receive quality husbandry.
2) To raise funds from the public, to finance chelonia rescue, research and
conservation projects worldwide.
3) To discourage the importation and purchase of wild caught specimens, in
favour of responsible captive breeding.