The team was alerted about an Olive Ridley sea turtle on the beach with a foreign thorn-like material in its nose. Marine biologist, Dr. Nathan J. Robinson and the Leatherback Trust team spotted an ...

The goal of the project was to develop a sensitive and specific portable eDNA water test to detect a known individual of Swinhoe's softshell Turtle, confirmed through a previous capture and ...

WCS works with critically endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles both in situ and ex situ. On site, for instance, WCS Myanmar began releasing captive-born Burmese star tortoises into the wild in ...

Ha Noi (Vietnam): Scientists released genetic results confirming a female turtle captured in October in Vietnam is definitively the near extinct Swinhoe's softshell turtle - also known as the Yangtze ...

Currently, it's estimated that only ten female adult Burmese roofed turtles remain in the world. WCS is protecting nearly 600 juveniles through our headstarting program. In Latin America and Asia, WCS ...