Caring for Baby Tortoises

A stone-and-timber conservation centre for giant tortoises, in six rooms. Upstairs left, a keeper checks eggs in a lit incubator while a colleague notes results beside egg growth charts and a wooden cabinet. In the middle, two keepers kneel at glass tanks of young tortoises under a painting of a grassy valley. At the right, an old man reads at a round table with a small tree, by an index drawer and tree murals. Downstairs left, three workers weigh and record eggs in baskets under a mural of tortoises on a volcanic slope and shell drawings. In the middle, an open doorway looks out on rocks and plants where tortoises roam, as a keeper waters the ground. At the right, jars of soil line a shelf above trays where people mix sand for nests. Pale nesting sand, green plants in the doorway and the volcanic mural give the hatchery its clear patches of colour.