Whether strolling in the Massif des Maures or wearing a practitioner's blue lab coat in the tortoise clinic, Franck Bonin wears the triple cap of veterinarian, director of the Tortoise Village of Carnoules, and president of La Tortue des Maures company. As such, he hosts and long-term finances the SOPTOM association recognized for the major public interest of its Hermann's tortoise conservation activities. La Tortue des Maures, which operates the Tortoise Village, and the SOPTOM have signed an agreement to ensure the sustainability of the legal and financial link between the village and the association.