The ploughshare tortoise, also referred to as the Angonoka tortoise, has become the rarest tortoise species on the earth, with only some hundred individuals still left inside the wild, and it shares its habitat with other endangered species such as the radiated tortoise.Soon after mating, the female will lay a clutch of two-eight eggs within a nest

"It's the entire world's most endangered tortoise," tortoise advocate Eric Goode stated to CBS inside a 2012 report around the ploughshare. "And it has an very large price on its head. Asian international locations really like gold and this can be a gold tortoise. And so basically, these are definitely like gold bricks that one can get and offer."