It would be nice.... ;-). However, the reality in our latitudes is that keeping and breeding tortoises privately involves such high financial costs that not even the annual basic costs for electricity, repairs, lighting, greenhouses, food, etc. can be covered by the sale of young animals. In order to make the breeding of tropical tortoises profitable, the keeping would have to be on the scale of a tightly organized and optimized tortoise farm with several dozen breeding animals that regularly lay hundreds of eggs, which could then all be hatched without major losses and the hatchlings sold. However, sales to serious interested parties with species-appropriate husbandry situations are so small in this country that, in time, they would also have to serve international markets, as well as worldwide, unscrupulous animal dealers or even markets for food or alternative medicine production.
Today, we see the motivation and legitimacy of private breeding programs in Europe primarily in the fact that through the legal sale of offspring, the natural stocks on Madagascar can be sustainably conserved in the future. The initial joy and euphoria about the first breeding successes gave way over time, however, to concerns about a long-term and species-appropriate housing of all young animals. Most of our offspring do not reach reproductive age due to poor husbandry conditions and many keepers lose interest in building up their own breeding group over time due to the slow change of generations and the great effort involved. From our point of view, keeping and breeding Radiated Tortoises primarily requires joy and interest in the matter as well as some idealism.