Since 2018 the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) Madagascar Program has been responsible for > 25,000 Radiated tortoises that were previously wild and confiscated from illegal wildlife traders in Madagascar as well as other countries. Madagascar federal law requires that all tortoises not legally exported be returned to Madagascar and that those being held by unlicensed persons (i.e. poachers) be arrested and prosecuted and the animals returned to the care of the government. The mission of the TSA is that no chelonians go extinct. One of the steps to furthering that goal is to protect turtles in the wild. Another is to rewild turtles while protecting the health of existing wild animals. In order to achieve these steps a number of different strategies have been employed. Factors that impact confiscation protocols include place of origin, place of confiscation, time out of the wild, exposure to non-native animals, ill health and evidence of exposure to non-native pathogens. Multiple locations in Madagascar serve as reception points for confiscated tortoises prior to their relocation to large long-term facilities or facilities with staffing and facilities to begin the rewilding process. This presentation will cover several different real-life scenarios that exemplify these attempts to provide solutions to some of the problems associated with confiscations of large numbers of tortoises in low resource settings.