wah, din know now got laws to ban certain sps of pet tortoise. I was keeping one. But i guess banning them when the demand is high for that species will actually motivate some people to start breeding them in captive, eventually making owing them legal again if enough is produced. This is good for the species and also for the pet lovers. Banning only trys to curb catching them in the wild, but like most people said, the wild itself ain't protected by other human activities like housing, development etc.