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Today’s turtle is the Palawan Island Turtle!

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Tiny baby turtle offers hope for species thought to be extinct

In 1908, the Arakan forest turtle was thought to be gone forever. But that changed when a forest turtle was rediscovered in a food market in 1994.

As the tiny turtle pictured here hatches from its shell at Turtle Conservancy's center in California, so too hatches a little ray of hope for this critically endangered species. This is the first hatchling of its species in two years in the captive breeding program...

Read more: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/baby-Arakan-forest-turtle-represents-future-species

photographs: Turtle Conservancy

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Today’s turtle is the Arakan Forest Turtle!

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Today’s turtle is the Sulawesi Forest Turtle!

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Turtle Conservancy:

The Kavalai Forest Turtle (Vijayachelys silvatica) is a small rare turtle from the Western Ghats of India. Threatened by deforestation and collection from its habitat, it is imperative that we implement protected areas and monitoring of this endangered species.

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