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Indochinese Box Turtle hatches at the Turtle Conservation Center in Cuc Phuong National Park

ATP Team15th September 2011

Following 65 days of incubation a critically endangered Indochinese Box Turtle (Cuora galbinifrons) hatchling emerged on the 6th of September at ... Read More

Critically Endangered Turtles Rescued from Trade

ATP Team6th January 2009

Forest Rangers and Environmental Police in Quang Ngai province recently confiscated 19 turtles from the home of a trader including ... 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

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