In the mid-1990s, wildlife traffickers supplying markets in southern China set their sights on the Burmese star tortoise, which prized for its meat and medicinal properties. In just a few years, with ...

“This is Cucumber. She is our Burmese python here at the Reptile Zoo,” Laura Brewer, operations manager at the zoo, says while sitting right next to the python in a video posted to the zoo’s ...

For example, Ms Boopal oversaw the repatriation of 51 illegally trafficked Indian star tortoises back to India in 2018. The tortoises, coveted for their star-patterned shells, were rescued from a ...

And their family continues to grow. A zoo press release sent via email proudly announced that three more critically endangered Galapagos tortoises — all male — recently hatched. This means ...

For example, Ms Boopal oversaw the repatriation of 51 illegally trafficked Indian star tortoises back to India in 2018. The tortoises, coveted for their star-patterned shells, were rescued from a ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW) -- The Philadelphia Zoo welcomed three new additions to its animal family this week after a group of male Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises hatched. The boys join the ...

She remembers being surprised at the variety of animals she encountered at the rehab centre, including several snakes, star tortoises, a monitor lizard, a flying fox and even a baby jackal ...

Anbu first started volunteering with Acres in 2005 as a graduate student at the National University of Singapore, after rescuing an Indian star tortoise being kept illegally in a backyard.

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