Turtle Conservancy News and Program Updates
Last month we highlighted how Australia's catastrophic drought and wildfires were pushing the Manning River Turtle further towards extinction and how our new partner organization, Aussie Ark, was not going to let that happen…
Over three million hectares of land have been devastated by unprecedented wildfires in Australia, and along with it, a staggering amount of critical habitat for endemic species has been destroyed. In June of this year, we announced a new partnership with Aussie Ark, who had begun monitoring the Manning River Sawshelled Turtle (Myuchelys purvisi)—a species estimated to have only 500-1000 individuals…
