Inside the effort to save a rare tortoise

• Autores: Alice Klein
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3131, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Klein shares her experience in the Minsontaung Wildlife Sanctuary in central Myanmar, where an ambitious project is under way to return captive-bred, critically endangered Burmese star tortoises to their native habitat. The unique creatures came close to extinction in the wild in the early 2000s, because of illegal trading on the global exotic pet market