• Director(s):

    RUBE (Bernhard)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, MEDIEN KONTOR Movie GMBH

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2014

  • Language(s):

    German, English, Spanish, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

The angonoka tortoise, as the local Madagascans call the ploughshare tortoise, is an especially elegant tortoise with a high-domed golden shell. Reaching an age of well over 100 years, they are found in the wild only on Madagascar, off the south-eastern coast of Africa.

Reptile collectors from around the world are frantic to obtain living specimens. However, the interest of Asians is limited to the shell, which is ground into a powder and is considered by many to be an aphrodisiac. Baly Bay National Park in Madagascar is the last natural refuge for the ploughshare tortoise.

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