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MYAMAR-US-SCIENCE-TURTLES
This Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)handout photo received September 8, 2009 shows the Arakan forest turtles. The WCS team discovered five of the critically endangered turtles in a wildlife sanctuary in Myanmar (Burma) in Southeast Asia. The sanctuary, originally established to protect elephants, contains thick stands of impenetrable bamboo forests and is rarely visited by people according to the report. The report documenting the turtles? discovery was prepared by Dr. Steven Platt of Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas and Khin Myo Myo of WCS. The adult turtles measure less than a foot in length; its shell is light brown with some black mottling. The species was believed extinct until 1994, when conservationists found a few specimens in a food market in China. Before then, the last know record of the species was of a single animal collected by a British Army officer in 1908. Many Asian turtle species have been driven to near extinction due to their demand as food. AFP PHOTO/WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY/STEVEN PLATT/HANDOUT/RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE
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ARAKAN FOREST, 138, MYANMAR |
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STEVEN PLATT |
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8 Septembrie 2009 |
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