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Shell Game Turtles Facing Extinction Get Help
The Turtle Survival Alliance Foun- dation (TSA) is opening a facility to house some of the world’s most endangered freshwater turtles and tortoises near Charleston, South Carolina. The 50-acre Turtle Sur- vival Center will maintain living groups, or assurance colonies, of many species facing an uncertain future in the wild. The center will house 20 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises ranked “critically endan- gered” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Nine are also on the Turtle Conser- vation Coalition list of the world’s most endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles. According to TSA Presi-
dent Rick Hudson, “No group of animals is under greater threat or faces a higher risk of extinction than freshwater turtles and tor- toises.” The center will focus on species that have little chance of being recovered in nature because of habitat loss and intensive hunt- ing pressures.
Some species have undergone
such dramatic declines that without intervention, their extinction is imminent. It’s hoped that offspring born at the center will eventually repopulate their ancestral habitats.
Contribute to the TSA Turtle Sur- vival Center capital campaign to help at
TurtleSurvival.org.
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