page_title: Homopus femoralis
section_title: Conservation
hierarchical_section_title: Homopus femoralis / Conservation
caption_attribution_description: English: Greater Padloper - female Homopus femoralis - South Africa
context_page_description: Homopus femoralis, commonly known as the greater padloper, is a small tortoise of the genus Homopus, indigenous to the highveld grasslands of South Africa.
context_section_description: The grassland species is threatened by overgrazing and poaching for the pet trade. As the trade in collected Homopus species is strictly illegal and any captive specimens are systematically registered in noncommercial studbooks in South Africa and Namibia, any commercial sale of Homopus tortoises is almost without exception strictly illegal.
  This species does not survive for long in captivity, unless considerable effort is made to supply specimens with their natural food, that is, endemic plants from the summer-rainfall grasslands region of South Africa. This summer-rainfall tortoise also has specific temperature requirements. They spend winter under vegetation and rocks (June–September) and lay up to three eggs in summer.
caption: Young female greater padloper
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