It is illegal for individuals to raise cherry red-legged tortoises without obtaining a breeding license, because cherry red-legged tortoises belong to the species in Appendix 2 of Washington Convention CITES. According to Article 40 of China's Wildlife Protection Law, CITES Convention is directly applicable to China, so in China, it is illegal to raise cherry red-legged tortoises without certificates. If you want to raise artificially bred cherry red-legged tortoises, you must go to the relevant departments to apply for a breeding license, so that you can legally breed cherry red-legged tortoises. However, even if you have a breeding license, you can only breed, not trade or give.

In general, most tortoises belong to protected animals, so they cannot be raised. In addition, there are some rare water turtles and semi-water turtles that cannot be raised, and the more common one is the money turtle.

The common Brazilian tortoises, razor tortoises, musk tortoises, giant egg tortoises, narrow bridge egg tortoises, big crocodile tortoises and small crocodile tortoises can all be raised.

Although Chinese grass turtles and yellow-edged turtles are common in our daily life, they also belong to the national second-class protected animals. If their source cannot be determined to be the second generation of artificially raised children, it is also illegal.