Back To Wild

A very rare river terrapin was found for the first time since 20 years in the Thai province of Phang Nga. This river terrapin was considered to be extinct in Thailand, before the villagers caught this female turtle on January 3, 2007, in a mangrove canal on the country’s Andaman coast.

According to local conservationist’s turtles are are a common food for this part of Thailand, This turtle was luckily purchased by a villager who was a conservationist and alerted the local conservation authorities. This young 20-inch-long (51-centimeter-long) turtle will now be raised in captivity and then released back into the wild.

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