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British Director Captures Life of Central Asian Tortoise in One of World’s Harshest Landscapes

By Assel Satubaldina on 17 May 2026

ASTANA – Would you spend nearly two weeks following one of the slowest creatures on Earth? British director Saxon Bosworth did exactly that, traveling to the Ustyurt Plateau in western Kazakhstan to capture the life of the Central Asian tortoise, a creature whose entire visible world unfolds in just...