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New surveys for the Vietnamese Pond Turtle (Mauremys annamensis) identify additional suitable habitat for the species

ATP Team19th June 2008

During late May and early June the Asian Turtle Program’s (ATP) carried out interview surveys in the central Vietnamese province ... Read More

Finding the Vietnamese Pond Turtle (Mauremys annamensis) in central Vietnam

ATP Team30th May 2008

From the 16th of April to 15th of May 2006 interview surveys were conducted in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam ... Read More

Turtle Conservation Center (TCC)

ATP Team27th December 2007

The Turtle Conservation Centre (TCC) is located at Cuc Phuong National Park, 120 kilometres to the south of Hanoi. It was established ... Read More

Lucky turtles saved from the cooking pot back in the wild

ATP Team7th June 2007

On the 28th of May 2007 193 freshwater turtles of four different species, Hieremys annandalii, Siebenrockiella crassicollis, Cuora amboinensis and Heosemys grandis, were released ... Read More

Mauremys annamensis recorded in natural habitat after 65 years

ATP Team7th December 2006

Vietnam – Efforts to find the Vietnamese pond turtle, Mauremys annamensis in the wild yielded a major success last week when a ... Read More

Endemic Vietnamese Pond turtles come home

ATP Team29th November 2006

Hanoi – Thursday May 11, 2006 – Yesterday, Cathay Pacific’s regular flight from Hong Kong delivered a special group of passengers ... Read More

New enclosures for hatchlings and juveniles at the TCC

ATP Team28th July 2004

The Turtle Conservation Centre (TCC) in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam, completed construction of several new enclosures for hatchling turtles in July ... Read More

Ranger training in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam

ATP Team25th May 2004

Ten forest rangers from Phong Nha National Park participated in a full day of training focused on identification of tortoises ... Read More

New Breeding Enclosure for Cuora galbinifrons at the Turtle Cuc Phuong Conservation Centre

ATP Team10th April 2004

Recent improvements have renovated one of the center’s earliest secure cages into a free-ranging breeding environment for the critically endangered ... Read More

A release of turtles from the Turtle Conservation Centre (TCC), Cuc Phuong National Park in Cat Tien National Park

ATP Team27th September 2003

A recent release of turtle was made on the 23rd and 24th of September in and around the Bau Sau ... Read More