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<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]July 2023 saw the second Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Field Skills Training Course held in Lao PDR. With 15 participants from universities from across Lao PDR and staff from NGOs, the ten-day practical course was organised by the Asian Turtle Program (ATP) of Indo-Myanmar Conservation (IMC) in partnership with the Laos Conservation Trust for Wildlife (LTCW) and the National University of Laos. The training was held at the LTCW Wildlife Rescue Centre in Ban Keun Town, Vientiane Province.<\/p>\n

The training course provided a mixture of lectures to introduce topics such as the Asian Turtle Crisis and threats to tortoises and freshwater turtles, species identification and animal handling, methods for conducting interview and forest surveys, with GPS, map reading, and radio telemetry. All of the lectures were supported by practical activities, with practicals held in the LCTW rescue centre grounds, local villages or surrounding forest areas. Following the training we hope to see some of the students who participated go on and complete short research projects focused on tortoise and freshwater turtles in Lao PDR. In the long term, we hope to replicate the development of a TFT conservation community and awareness achieved in Vietnam, where the field skills training course has been held annually since 2005. Most of the course taught in Laos was presented by staff from the ATP\/IMC who were once students in some of the early training courses held in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

With so many important species of TFT in Lao PDR, and large areas of unspoilt habitat, conservation efforts and the protection of these highly threatened species are more important than ever.<\/p>\n

LCTW, find out more about their project here: LINK<\/a><\/p>\n

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Students are practising turtle identification and making field records.\u00a0 Photo: Tran Thi Tuyet Dung \u2013 ATP\/IMC<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Director Timothy McCormack practices egg measuring with students. Photo: Tran Thi Tuyet Dung \u2013 ATP\/IMC<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The training was a combination of classroom and outdoor practicals. Photo: Tran Thi Tuyet Dung \u2013 ATP\/IMC<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Press Release by: Timothy McCormack & Nguyen Thanh Luan – ATP\/IMC<\/p>\n

Date: 10th<\/sup> August 2023[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Acknowledgement:
\n<\/strong>We would like to thank all our partners Laos Conservation for Wildlife Trust (LCTW) and the National University of Laos) , and the students who participated in the training, and our supporters, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), IUCN Asia, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.[\/vc_column_text]

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evergreen forest in Ca Forest<\/h3>Habitat in the evergreen forest within Ca Forest where the survey took place. Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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volunteer check trap during biodiversity survey in Ca Forest<\/h3>An ATP volunteer checks the traps in the morning. Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Trimeresurus sp. in Ca Forest<\/h3>In the rain season, common snakes like this Green-pit Viper (Trimeresurus cf. macrop) are easily found alongside the stream in Ca Forest. Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Leptobrachella macrops<\/h3>A Big-eyed Leaf-litter Toad (Leptobrachella macrops), an endemic and recently discovered frog in Ca Forest. Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Wetland habitat in Ca Forest<\/h3>Wetland habitat in Ca Forest suitable for the Critically Endangered and endemic Vietnamese Pond Turtle (Mauremys annamensis). Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Nycticebus bengalensis<\/h3>A juvenile Bengal Slow Loris (Nycticebus bengalensis). Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Nycticebus bengalensis<\/h3>A close up of the limb of a Bengal Slow Loris (Nycticebus bengalensis). Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Acanthosaura murphyi<\/h3>A recently described tree agamid, Acanthosaura murphyi, was found in Ca Forest. This species was described by the Asian Turtle Program team in 2018. Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Rhacophorus annamensis<\/h3>A pair of Central Vietnam Flying Frogs (Rhacophorus annamensis) mating at the streams edge. This species often lays eggs as a foam-net on a rock wall or tree branch or at shallow water spool near stream. Photo credit: ATP\/IMC<\/small><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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