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Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

From Soup to Superstar: the story of sea turtle conservation along the Indian coast – book review

Turtle smuggler sentenced to 5 years in prison

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are in even more trouble than scientists thought

Photos: ‘Extremely rare’ baby albino turtle spotted in Australia

Chinese turtle heist sends rare Philippine species to brink of extinction, international rescue underway

Photos: new zoo exhibit dramatically displays real threat to Asian turtle

Locals lead scientists to new population of near-extinct reptile

With local help, hawksbill sea turtles make a comeback in Nicaragua

Suspects acquitted in shocking murder of sea turtle conservationist

The threat of traditional medicine: China’s boom may mean doom for turtles

No longer ‘deaf as a stump’: researchers find turtles chirp, click, meow, cluck

‘Hope springs eternal’: the anniversary of the death of Lonesome George

Survey finds huge biological value in Baja California, stalls resort development

Chinese poachers caught with 555 marine turtles, most dead (PHOTOS)

Fish-terrorizing, prehistoric-looking turtle actually three species

Chelonians for dinner: hunting threatens at-risk turtles and tortoises in India

Photos: mass turtle hatching produces over 200,000 babies

The smoothtooth blacktip shark and four other species rediscovered in markets

Over 350 species added to the IUCN Red List’s threatened categories in the last six months

Leatherback sea turtle no longer Critically Endangered

Eighty sea turtles wash up dead on the coast of Guatemala

Costa Rican environmentalist pays ultimate price for his dedication to sea turtles

Five percent of ploughshare tortoise population perishes after botched smuggling attempt

Scientists discover that marine animals disperse seagrass

How many animals do we need to keep extinction at bay?

Over ten percent of a species’ total population found in smuggler’s bag

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